v ■ ■'"> •".' ■ SggBffl J Can ■« CPera et vma E^aies^ohnnvsaieijm £ Colitis qp\\ovo\\&' 1laf;i 6zj : Dl^.l/. Seft.io: 10 o 'I • (7auaitpatietvtiji durts. tc,j f sJgs^ The Holy Guide: Leading the Way to the Won- der of the VYorld : (Acompleat Phifitian)teaching the Knowledge of all thing^Paft, Pre lent, and toCome^m, Of Pleafure,!ong lifc^ Health, Youth, Blefiedncfs, VVifdome and Virtucj and to Cui'e, Change and Remedy ell Dicif.s in Young and Old. With Rope Crucian MtdWnil M which ate verified by a Practical Examination of Principles in the great Worlds and fitted for the eafie under \landingrflain pradife up ani benefit of man Captihii By Jo\m Hcydtm Gent. ®/Aoj/o t ue?, A Servant or Go J, and a Secretary of Nature, And he too\the golden Calf which they had wade, and burned it in the Fire, and ground it to pow- der, and brewed it upon the Water , and made. the Children oflfrael drinl^of it 7 Exo. 3 2 ,v. 20. L N D ON, Printed by T.jVf. 2nd are to be fold by Thomas H hittlefey at the Globe in Cannon-Street near London- Snne^wd at all other Bco ( .'fellcrs Shops , 1661. 4< To the truly Noble (by all Titles) Sr. Richard Temple, Baronet, &>c. Externaljlnternai and Eternal happinefs be wifhed, Honoured Sir 3 JJj obferve every man naturally deftres a Superiority z to S^iSiS* have freafures of Gold and Silver y and to feem great in the eyes of the world ; God indeed Created all things for the ufe of man f bat he might rule over them y and acknowledge therein the ftngular goodmfl and Omnipotent cyofGod,& give him thanh^ for his benefits'* honour him andpraife him : But there is no man losses 4 3 after The Epiftle after tbefe things ^otherwife then by fpending his dayes idly, they would enjoy them without any previous labour and danger ; neither doe they look then/ out of that place, where God hath treafured them up, whoexpeBe alfo that winfbould fee\ for them there , and to thofe thdtfe\i w ^ he give them: but there is not any that labors for a poffijjio/t i# that place, and there* fore thrfe Riches are not found* For the way to this place , and the place it f If hath bem mknownfor a long | and it is hidden from the gr:ateft pari of the world. Bitf noffyithfianding it be difRcult^and laborious to finde out this way and place y yst the place JJjould be (might after ; But it is not the will ?fGod to conceale avy thing from thofe Dedicatory. tbofelbaTarebis 5 and therefore in tbk lafl age, before the final judge- ment comes, aUthefe things Jhalbe manifejied to tbofe that are un- worthy : As he himfelf ( though obfcnrelyjefi itjhouldbe maniffi- ed to the unworthy) bathfpoken in a certain place } there h no- thing covered that flail not be re- sealed, and hidden that fbaUnat be known; and therefore being z Servant of God , and Secretary of Nature , we do declare the will of God to the World, which we have atfo already performed and pnbltjbed in Italy and England^ but ntoft men, either revile or con- temn that our Harmony of the World, and Temple of Wifdom &c. or elfe waving the fpirit of Cod, they expeB the frofofals there" TheEpiftle thereof from us y J n PP°f ln g WQ Will jlraight way teach them how toma\e Gold by Art , orfurnijh them with ample treafures, where- by they may live pompoufly in the face of the world , faagger , and make wars^ turn ZJfurers , Glut^ tons and Drunkards Jive unchaji- Ijl) and defile their whole life with fevsral other fins j all which things are contrary- to the bleffedwill of G&d'ithefe menfhonld have learnt fromthofe ten Virgins ( whereof •five that were footiflj demanded Oylefor their Lamps , from thofe five that were wife ) how that the eafe is much otherwife ; It is expe- dient that every man fbould labour for the treafitre by the ajpftance of Qod.and his own particular fear^ch and indnflfy. Bat the perverfe in - tent ions Dedicatory. Untions ofthefe Fellows we under* ft and cut of their writings 5 by the fwgular Grace and Revelation if God 5 "toe do flop our ears , and wrap oar felves , as n were in clouds, to avoid the bellowing and howling ofthofe pien y who in faain cry out for Gold* Andhence in* deed it comes to paffe \ that thy brand us with infinite Calumnies andS landers jvhich notypkhftandr ing we d-e not rcfent , but God in his good time will judge them for it- But after that we had well hjtown C though unhiownto you) and perceived all by your writings how diligently you are to perufe the holy Scripture, & feehjhe true knowledge of God : We Honour yqp Sir Richar d above thoufands, andfignifie ihm much to yen 5 not, but The Epiftle but that you know as much as our felf : But as a tohgn of our good will, that may make you mindefull ofns There is a Mountain fttua* ted in the mideji of the Earth , or Centre of the World, which is both fmall and great. It is foft y andaU fo above meafure hard andflony. It is far off] and near at hand, hit by the providence of God invi- fible. In it are hidden mof ample treafures , which the world is not able to value. Ihis mountain by envy of the Devill , who alwayes oppofeth the glory of God, and the happineffe of man, is compaffed a- b.o%t with very cruel Beafis and 0- ther ravenous Birds, which mahg the way thither both difficult and danqerous. And therefore hither- to y becmfe the time is not yt comc y the Dedicatory. he way thither could ? ot be r ought after 7 nor found out 5 but ww the way is to be found by hofe that are worthy , but not- ftithjlanding by every Peakf , for five monethsfpaze, and more. But yen the winde came about, and fetled in the Veft for many dayes, fo as we could ma\e little r no way, and were fumetimes in purpofe to turn ack< But then again there arofe pong nd great Windes from the South, with a point iaft, which carried us up s (for all that we could \oe J towards the North : F.y which time our hauals failed us , though we had made good tare of them. S o that finding our f elves in the udfi ef the great eft wilderneffe of Waters m he World, without Victuals , we gave our felves or loft men,andpreparedfort)eath.Tetwe did ift up our hearts and voices to God above, wh$ heweth his wonders in the Deeps Befeeching him f hk Mercy, that as in the Beginning he difco* b vtrei The Preface. vcred the Face of the Veep , and brought forth "Dry-land '■> So he would now discover Land to usjbat we might not per ifh. And it came to pafs, that the next day about evenings we faw with- in a \enning before us, towards the North, as it were tbic\Clouds, which did put us infome hope of Land}, Knowing how that part of the South fea was utterly unknown , and might have Jflands or Continents , that hitherto were not come to light , Wherefore we bent our courfe thither j where we faw the appearance of Land, all that Evening ; And in the Dawning of the next Day, we might plainly difcem that it was a land ; flat to our fight and full of Bofcage , which made it (hew the more Darl^ And after an houre and a halfs fay ling , we entred into a good Haven,hemg the Port of a faire City ; n ot great indeed, but well built , and that gave a pleafant view from the Sea : A>id we thinkjng every minuit long , till we were on Land, came clofe to the fhore , and offered to land-. But iiraightwayes we faw divers of the people, with Baflonsin their hands, ( as it were j forbidding Us to land ; Tet without any cryes or fiercenejfe y but onely as warning us off, by fignes that they made. Whereupon being not a little difcontfor- ied, we were advifing with our f elves, what we fhould do. During which time, there made forth to us a fmall Boat, with about eight perfons in it% whereof one of them had in his hand a Tiffiajf of a yellow Cane Jtif fed at both ends withgreen 9 who The Preface. who came aboard our (hip , without any ftjew of diitruli at all. And when he faw one of our num- ber prefent himfelf fomewhat afore the reft , he drew forth a little Scrouleof Parchment (Jome- fph.n yellower than our parchment, and fining tikgtbe Leaves of Writing Tables, but other- wife [off and flexible ) and delivered it to our foremoji Man . In which fcroule were written in antient Hebrew , and in ancient Greekg } and in good Latine of the School \ and in Spanifhjbefe words ; Land ye not , none of yon ; And provide to be gone from this Coaft, with- in Hxteen dayes, except you have further time given you. Mean while, if you wane frefti Water , or Vi&ual, or help for your Sick, or that your (hip needeth repaire, write down your wants, and you (hall have that which belongeth to Mercy. This fcroule wasfigned with a Stamp o/Cheru- bins Wings , not fpread , but hanging clown-* wards -, And by them a Crojfe. Ibis being de- livered , the Officer returned 5 and left onely a fervant with us to receive our Anfwer. Conful- tin% hereupon among ft our felves, we were much -perplexed. The denial of Landing , and haftf warning us away, troubled us much ; On the o* ther fide, tefindethat the People hadlanguageSj and werefo full of humanity, did comfort us not a little. And above all , the figne of the Crofft to that Inftrument, wm to us a great re'joyting, find m it were a certain prefage &f Good. Our b 2 4tf*gL The Preface, Anfwer was in theSpanifh tongue, That for our Ship, it was well -, For we had rather met with Calms, and contrary windes than any tem- pers. For our fick^tbey were many, and in very ill Cafe 5 So that if they were not permitted to Land, they ran in danger of their Lives. Our other wants we fet down in particular,ad- ding , 7 hat we had fome little ftore of Mer- chandize^ which if it pleafedthm to de ale for, it might fupply our Wants, without being charge able unto them. We offered fome reward in Pi- fiolet unto thefervant, and a piece of Crimfon Velvet to be prefented to the Officer : But the Servant took^ them not, nor wuuldfcarce loo\up- en them \ And Co left us, and went backjn ano- ther Boat, which wasfent for him. About three houres after we had difpatched eur Anfwer 5 there came towards us, a Perfon (as it Ceemed) of place. He had on him a Gown with wide f!eeves,of a kinde of Water Chamolot^ of an excellent green Colour , farre more glojfie than ours : His under apparel was green A- zure ; And fo was hti Hat, being in the form of a lurban, daintily made, and not fo huge as the Turkifh Turbans ; And the Lockj of his Haire came down below the Brims of it. A reverend Mm was he to behold. He came in a Boat, gilt in fome part of it y with foure Perfons more one- ly in that Boat ; And was followed by another Boat) wherein were fome twenty. When he was cemi within a Flight- foot of our Ship y Signer were The Preface. were made to us, that wefbould fend forth fome to meet him upon the Water -> which weprefent- ly did in our Ship- boat , cr Skjjfe, fending the principal! Mw among\\ us fave one, and foure of our Number with him. When we were come within fix yards of their Boat, they called to us to ft ay , and not to approach further ; which we did. And thereupon the Man, whom 1 be- fore defcribed, flood upland with a loud voice ,in Spanifh , askgd-, Are ye Chriflians? We an- faered ; We were ; fearing th? lejfe, becaufe of the Crolfe we had feen in the Subfcription. At which Anfwer the fa id Perfon lift up his Right hand towards Heaven, and drew-it foftly to his mouth, (which is the Gefture they ufe , when they thank^ God;*) And i hen fard: If ye will fwear, (all of you) by the Merit efthe Saviour, that ye are no Firates ; Nor have jhed blood, I 'awfully >,nor unlaw fully, within forty dayespaft, you may have licenfe to come on Land, We f aid, We were all ready to take that Oath. Whereupon one ofthofe that were with him , be- ing Qas itfeemed) a Notarie , made an Entrie sfthit Aft. Which done , another of the fame Boat, after his Lord hadfpokgn a- little to him, [aid aloud ; My Lord would haveyou know that it is not of Pride, orgreatnefle, that he commeth not aboard your Ship ; But for that, in your Anfwer, you declare, that you have many fick amongft you, lie was warned by the Confervatour of Health, b 3 of -a The Preface. of the City , that he (hould keep a dijlance. We were his humble few ants ; / : nd accounted for great Honour-, and fingular Humanity to- wards us , that which was already done ; But hoped well, that the Nature of the fxknefl, of our Mn, was not infectious. So he returned ; And a while after came the Notary to us a- hoard our Ship ; holding in his hand a fruit of that Countrey, like an Orenge , but of colour between Orenge-tawney and Scarlet , which caji a Moll excellent Odour, He ufed it ( as it feemnh ) for a prefervative againft InfcCion. He gave us our Oath, i)y the Name of [efus and his Merits : And after told us } that the next day , by fix of the Clocke in the Morning, we jhould befent to, and brought to the j\r angers houfe , Qfohe called it) where we jhould be ac- commodated of things both for our whole and for our ficl^. So he left us *, And when we of- fered him fome Tijtolets, he fmilingj 'aid $ He muft not be twice paid for one Labour : Meaning (ail take it) that he had Salary fuf- ficient of the State for his fervice. For (as I after learned ) they call an Officer that taketh Rewards, twice paid. Ihe next Morning early , there came to us the fame Officer , that came to us atfirfl with fyis Cane, and told us-, He came to conduct. us the grangers houfe; And that he had pre- vented the Hon re, becaufe we might have fche whole day before us 3 for our bufinefTe. For The Preface. For (faid he) if you will follow mine ad- vice, there (hall tirft go with me fome rew of you, and fee the place, and how it may be made convenient for you ■> And then you may fend for your Sick , and the reft of your Number , which ye will bring on Land. We tbkznkgd him , and faid , That this care which he took of defolate ftrangers, God would reward. And fo fix of us went a- Jhore with him : A d when we were landed, he went before us, and turned to us, and faid •, he was our fervant, and our guide. He led its thorow three faire flreets ; And aU the way we went , there were gathered fome People on both fides, ftanding in a Row -, but info civ ill afa- Jhion, as if it had been, not to wonder at us , but to welcome us : And divers of them,as we pafjed by them, put their Arms a little abroad-, which is their Gefiure , when they bid any welcome. The fir angers houfe is a faire andfpacious houfe 9 built of Bric^of fomewhat a blewer colour than our Brick^', And with handfome windows, fome ofGlaffe, fome of a kjnde of Cambric\oyVd. He brought us firfi into a faire Parlour above Jiaires, and then ask^ed us ; What number of Perfons we were > And how many lick > We anfweredy We were in all ffickand whole) 2$o. Perfons, whereof our lick were feventeen. Re de fired us to have pati- ence a little, and to ft ay till he came hackjo us°, Which was about art houre after 3 And then he b A led ,_ _ &w The Preface. led us to fee the ( bambers , which were provi m dedfor us , being in number 250. Ibey having caftit ( as itfeemeth } thatfoure ofthofe (b am- bers, which were better than the reft, might re- ceive foure of the principal Men qf our company, and lodge them alone by themf elves ; and the reft were to lodge us. The Chambers were band* fome and cheer full C h ambers, and furnifhed ci- villy. 7km he led us to a long Gallery, li^e a Torture, where bejhewed us all along the one fide ( for the other fide was but If all and Win- dow ) fiventeen Cels , very neat ones, having partitions of Cedar wood. Which Gallery and Cells, beingin all 900. ( many more than we needed ) were infiitnted as an Infirmary for fick perfons. And he told us with all, that as any our fic\ waxed well, he might be removed from his Cell to a Chamber ; For which purpofe, there were fet forth ten fpare Chambers , be fides the number we fpa\e of before, 1 his done , he brought usbacJ^ to the Parlour , and lifting up his Cane a little , ( as they doe when thy give any Charge or Command ) faid to us ; Ye are to know,that the cuftome of the Land re. quireth,that after this day, and to mor- row, ( which we give you for removing of your people from your fliip, ) you are to keep within doores for three dayes But let it not trouble you , nor do not think your felves reftrained , but rather left to your Reft and Eafe. You (hall want no- thing 3 fhe Preface. thjng, and there are fix of our People ap- pointed to attend you 3 for any burin eflfe you may have abroad. We gave him thanks , with all affection and Refpecls, and [aid j God iurely is m;mi felted in chisLand. We of- fered kirn alf$ twenty Tijhlets , But he fmiled, and onely [aid? What > twice paid / And ft he left us. Seen after our Dinner wasferved in; which was right good Viands , both for Bread , Meat) Wine , Sic. Better than any Collegiate Viet that I have h^town in Europe. We had mfo drin\ of three forts, Ale, Beer, Sy» dermal 1 whole fome and good *, Wine of the Grape y and another drin\of Grain , fuch as is with us our Mum, but more clear : And a kjnde of Ter- ry like the Ye are juice , made of a fruit of that Countrey ; A wonder fullf leafing and Refrejb- ing VrinK Be fides, there were brought in to us, great fiore ofthofe Scarlet Orenges,for our Stckj> which (they fa id ) were an affured Remedy for fictyfife taken at Sea, 7 here was given us alfo a Box offmallgray, or whitijh Tills, which they wijhed our fic\ frould take, one of the Tills, eve- ry night before fleep -, which (they faid ) would haften their recovery. 7 he next day , after that our trouble of Carriage and Removing of our men and goods, out ofeurjhip>was fomewhatfet- led and quiet , I thought good to call our Com* fany together, and when they were affembled,faid unto them-, My dear friends , Let us know ourfelves, and how it ftandeth with us. We The Preface. Wcare Men caft on land as Jo>w was, out of the Whales beliy, when we were as buried in the Deep : And now we are on Land, we are but between Death and Life ; For we are beyond, both the old World , and the New; And whether ever wefhail fee Ear0pf,Godonelykuoweth. It is akindeof Miracle hath brought us hither : And it muftbe little lelTe, that (hall bring us hence. Therefore in regard of our Deli- verance pair, and our danger prefent,and to come, let us look up to God,and every man reform his own wayes. Beiides,we are come here amongft a ChrijHm Peo- j>le J full of Piety and Humanity : Let us not bring that Confufion of face upon our felves, as to (hew our vices, or unwor- thinefTe before them. Yet there is more. For the/ have by Commandement, ( though in form of CourteQe) Cloiftered us within thefe wals, for three daies; who knoweth, whether it be not, to take fome tafte of our manners and conditions 1 And if they find thembad,to banifh usftraight wayes 5 If good, to give us further time. For thefe men,that they have given us for attendance, may wichal have an eye upon us. Therefore for Gods love, and as we love the weale of our Souls and Bodies, let us fo behave our felves , as we may be at peace with God, and may finde grace in the The Preface. the eyes of this People. Our Company with one vjce thtinked me for my good Admonition^ and promt fed me to live foberly and civilly, and without giving any theleaft tecaf&n of Offence* So we fyem our three day es joyfully, and without care^ in expe&ation what would be done with us , •when they were expired. During which time y we had every hov.re joy of the amendment of our fic^ who thought themflves calf into Come Di- vine Poo I e o f H e a 1 1 n g *, They mended fo kjnd- ly andfo fati 3 ai you may read in our Temple of Wifdome. Ihe morrow after our three dayei were pa (i y there came to us a new Man , that we had not feen before ^loathed in Azure ^as the former was, five that his Turban was white ^with a (mall red Crofie on the Top. He had alfo a Tippet of fine Linnen. At his camming in^he did bend to ns a little*, and put his arms broad. We of our parts fainted him in a very lowly and fubmiffve man- ner , As looking that from him , we (hould re- ceive Sentence of Lih*. or Death He defired to fpeal^with fome few of us : Whereupon fix of us onely ftayed* and the re\i avoided the room. He [aid ; I am by Office Governour of this Houfe of Strangers, and by Vocation lam zChriftian Friefls , and of the or- der of the Kofie Croffe ; and therefore am come to you to offer you my fer- vice, both as ftrangers, and chiefly as Chri- ftans. Some tilings I may tell you 3 which I think The Preface think you will not be unwilling to heare. The State hath given you Licence to flay- on Land, for the (pace of fix weeks : And let it not trouble you , if your occafions ask further time, for the Law in this point is not precife -■> And I do not doubt , but my fdf (hall be able to obtain for you, fuch fur, her time, as may be convenient. Ye (hall alfo uuderftand, that the Stran- gers Houfe, is at this time Rich, and much aforehand \ For it hath laid up Revenue thefe 36000. years : For fo long it is fiuce any Stranger airived in this part. And therefore take ye nocare; theStatewill defray you all the time you flay ; Neither mall you ftay one day the lefle for that. As for any Merchandize ye have brought, ye (hall be well ufed , and have your return, either in Merchandize,or in Gold and Sil- ver: For to us it is all one. And if you have any other Requefts to make , hide it not. Forye mall flnde, we will not make your Countenance to fall, by the Anfwer ye (hall receive. Onely this I muft tell you that none of j ou muft go above a Julo, or Karan (that is with them^a Mile and an half) from the walls of the City , without efpe- ciall leave. JVeanfwered y after we bad looked a while one upon another , admiring this graci- ous and parent- 1 il{e ufage ^ That we could net tell what to fay : For we wanted words to ex- preffe The Preface. prejfe our thanh y And his Noble free Offers left us nothing to as\ Itfeemed to us, that we had before us a picture efourSa] vation in Hea- ven: For we that were a while fince in the jaws of Death, were now brought into a place cohere we found nothing but Confolations.Forthe Com- vnandement laid upon us, we would not faile to obey it, though it was impotftble but our Hearts ftiould be en flamed to tred further upon this hap- py and holy Ground We added, That our Tongues jhould fir ft cleave to the Roofs of our Mouths,ere we Jhould forget,either his Reverend Ferfon , or this whole Nation , in our Prayers. We alfo mo ft humbly be fought him , to accept of us as his trnefervants , by ajufl Right as ever men on earth were bounden ; laying and pre fen- ting , both our Tafons , and all we had , at his feet. He f aid, He was a Vrieft,and looks d for a. Priefts reward , which was our Brotherly love^ and the good of our fouls and bodies. So he went from us, not without tears of tendernefie in bis eyes ; And left us alfo confufed with joy and kindnep, faying amongft our f elves , That we were come into a Land of Angels, which did ap- pear to us daily, and prevent us with Comforts^ which we thought not of \ much leffe expecled. The next day about i ©. of the Clocks, the Go* •vernour came to us again^and after call it in their language} havethx, that by means of our folitary Situation, and of the Laws of Secrecy, which we have for our Travel- lers , and our rare admiffion of Strangers, we know well moft p art of the Habitable World, and are our fives unknown. Therefore becaufe he that hnoweth leafc, U fit t eft to a sty '< eft ions, it is more reafon,for theEntertainment of the time, that ye as\rne qut '[lions, than that I askjou. We anfwered ; That we humbly thanked him , that he would give us leave fo to do : And that we conceived by the tafte we had already , that there was no worldly thin that I fliould commit this Arke re the floods of the Sea. Therefore • .- teftificand declare unto that people where G o D (hall ordain this Arke to come to Lnjid, that in the fame The Preface. is come unto them Salvation and Peace, and good Will, from the Fa- ther, and from the Lord Je- sus. Ihere was alfo in boththefe writings, as well the Book,,, as, the Letter* wrought, a great Mi* rack, Conforme to that of the Apo files in the Original! gift of Tongues. For there being at that time, in this Land, Hebrews, Perfians, m and Indians, be fides the Natives, every one ™ read upon the book^ and the Letter , as if they had been written in bis own Language.' And thus w 06 this Land faved from Infidelity, Mas the Remain of the Old World was from Wa- ^er) by an Arke, through the ApofiolicaU and Miraculous Evangelifme of Saint John.hnd here he paufed,and a MefTenger came,and called him from us. So this was all that palled in that Conference. The next day the fame Governor! r came again to us, immediately after din- ner, and excufed himfelf, faying? That the- day before, he was called from usfomewhat ab- ruptly^ but flow he will make us amends, and fpend time with us, if we held his Company and Conference agreeable. We anfwered , That we held it fo agreeable and pleafing to us, as we forgot both dangers pa\\, and fears to come, for the time we heard him fpeakj And that we thought The Preface. thought an hour font with him, was worth years of our former life. He bowed himfelf a little to us, and after we were fet again he faid ; Well, *he §ue[ti6ns are on your fart. One of our number faid after a little Paufe; That there was a Matter we were no It fide fir ous to know> then fearfull to as\e, leaft- we might prefume too farr. But encouraged by his rare Humanity towards us, (that could fcarce thin\pur ftlves Strangers, being his vow^ ed and profejfed Servants ,) we would take the Hardinefsto propound it: Humbly be fetching, him, if he thought it not fit to be anfwered,tbat he would pardon it , though he rejected it. We faid , We well ohfeYved thofehis words , which he formerly fpal^e,that this hap pay lfland,wher we now (hod, was ktiown to few, and yet knew wo ft of the Natious of the World ; which we found to be true, considering they had the Lan- guages of Europe, and knew much of our ftate and bufineffe ; And yet we in Europe, (mt- withftanding all the remote Difcoveries, & Na- vigations of ibis lajl Age) never heard any of the leaft Inkjing or Glimfe of this Ifland. Ibis we found wonder full fir ange ; For that all Na- tions have Enter-kpowledg one of another , either by Voyage into Forraign fptrtSe, cr by Strangers that come to them ; And though the Travailer into a Forraigne Country, d&th commonly know more by the eye, then he that ft ay eth at home can bj reUt'wi of the Travailer -, let both wayes ct f u ffi*i The Preface. fuffice to makg a mutual knowledge in fome de' gf&) on both parts. But for this lfland,we m- ver heard tell of any Ship of theirs, that had been feen to arrive upon anyjhore ofEmop^No nor of either the Eaft or Weft Indies, nor yet of any Ship of any other fart of the World that had made return from them. Aadyet.tlye Marvel I re fled not in this\For the Schuatioii of it (as his Lordfhip [aid,) in the ftcret Conclave of fitch a vaii Sea mougbt caufe it, hut then that they jhould have knowledge of the Languages, Vook^ Affabres ofthofe that lyefuch a diftance from them, it was a thing we could not tell what to makg of -■> For that it fee- to its a condition and Propriety ■ of Divine Towers and i>eings, to be hidden and unfeen to others yand yet to have others open., and as in a to them. At this fpeech the GoVernour aerations fmile and faid} Ihatwre did w.liHraske far don for this ghieftion we now • i r J- or that it imported^ as if we thought ■j f Magicians, that fent forth ■Spirits of the Aire into all parts ft to bring them \t intelligence of other Countries. It was ei ed by us all, in all pofllble humble- li yec with a Countenance cakc- .now.Iedce, that .we knew he fpake it x^rvlly^M hat wewere aft enough to think^ waS'fjyniwhxtfupernaturall m thtslflmd, . i her as Adgtlicall, than Ma^icall. bis L'trdibiplyiow truly y what itw.i? tljatwade us Und.r and djultfullto asl^ tbh gutfioh, The Preface. 6htefiion> it was not any luck conceit, but be- cause we remembred, be bad given a Touch in his former Speech, that this Land bad Laws of Secrecy touching Strangers. Totb's be faid ycu remember it aright ; And therefore in that Ifbai! fay to you, Imu{i referve \ome perticulars which it is not Lawful! for me to reveale^ but there will be enough left to give yGufatisfofti- m. Tm (ball underftand (that which perhaps you will fcarce thinly credible^ that about three thousand years agoe, or fomewhat more, the Na- vigation of the world {fperially for remote voya- ges) was greater than at this day, Vo ntit tbinkjpith your felves,that 1 know not fow much it is incre&fed with you within thefe fix f core Tears: 1 kpow it wellt, and yet I fay, greater then , than now : Whether it was, that the ex- ample of the Arke, that faved the remnant of men from the univerfajl Deluge., gave men confidence to adventure upon the Waters-fir what it was\ iutfuchisthe 'Truth. The Pbrenici- an* , and fpecially the TyriansJW great Fleets. So had tbe Carthaginians their Cohny, which is further fFeft. Toward the Eaft tbe Shipping effigy pr, wd of PaJcftina was lihgwife greaf, China alfo,and the great eXmeric^which have now but Junks , and Caw? s, abounded then in tan Ships. This Iflmd, Qas appear eth by faith- full Regifters of thofe times} had thm fifteen hundred fir ong Ships, of great content. Of all c \ The Preface. tbis,there is with you (paring Memory, or mm ,- But we have lar^e knowledge th j reof. At that time, this land was k,r,own and fre- quented by the (bips and Ve (fells of all the nations before amend; (And as it cometb to piffe*) they bad many tirws men of other Countries, that were no Tylers, that came with fbew, as Per- fians, Chaldeans /Egyptians and Grecian?, So as almofy at/Nations cf Mipht and Fame re- (orted hither; Ofwhome we hav? (otne Stirps, and little Tribes with us, at this day. And for cnr own Ships, they went fundry Voyages y as wet) to your ft) eight j y whicbyoucall the Pilhrs ef Hercu'fcv* t0 ot ^ er p^tiin the Pcrfian and jVlcditcrr ane Si'as ; As to Paguin, (which is the fame with Gambaline) and Qinszy, upon the Oriental! 5eas>ai fan as to the Borders o- the EdJfTartary. At the fame time , and an ar y e after, or wore, the Inhabit ants of the Holy Land dia flowifb. For though tb? Narration and dif crip t ion, which is made by a great Man with you , that the Ve- fcendents oj Neptune plantedthere ; and of the Magnificent 'temple, Palace, City and Hill ; fee my Rofie Crucian Infallible Axiom at a , and f£e manifold fir earns of goodly Navigable rivers , (which as fo many Chains environed the fame Site, and 'Temple ; ) And the fever al Degrees of Afcent, whereby men did climb up to the fame, at vf it bad been a Scala Caeli, be all Poe- tical} and fabulous : let fo much is true , that The Preface. that the faid Country of Judca , as well that of Peru then called Coya, as that of Mexico thin named Tyrambel , wre mighty and proud Kingdom's, in Arms, Shifting-, and Riches ; Si mighty) as at one time ( or at lea[i within the jpacetf ten) ears,*) the\ h\h made two great ex- peditions ; They qf.Tfttmbcl tbrqttgb Judca to the Mediterrane pa •, and they of Coya through theSowh fea upon this our Ifiand : And for the former of thefe^wbicb iras into Europe, the fane Author amcn^fl you 3 (as it ftemetb^) had jome relation from his B?ara 3 whom be re- citeth : S^c the Harmony of the World, lib, i. The Preface which indeed !« an inrro- du&ion to the worke. For affuredly fuch a thing there was. But whether it were the ancient Athenians that had the glory of the Repulfe^and Refiftance of thofe Forces v lean fay ttotbin^ : But certain it U^ there never cante back^ y either Ship) or Man , from that Voyage. Neither bad the other Voyage of thofe of Coya upon us, had better fortune , if they had not met with Enemies of great clemency. For the Kingof this lftand* {by name Pbroates who was rat fed three timet from death to life ; ) a wife Man, and a great Warrier-j Knowing well both bis ownftrength, and that of bis Enemies; bandied the waiter fo 9 is be cut off their Land-forces from their fhifs; and entoyled both their Navy, and their Cam? with a greater power than theirs, both by fea and hnd : And compiled Ibem to rendzr \bm\elve* c 4 wit ty&y The Preface. without ftrik*ingftroke: And after they were at bis MeVSy contenting bimfelf only with their Qjtb) thai tb?y fhonldho more beare Amies a- gainji him, dtfmifjed tbw all infafeiy. But the Divine Revenge overtook^not long after tkoje fond enterprises. For within leffe than the (p we of one Hundred years, tbelftxnA was «f- terly loft and desTro;. ed : Not by a great Farth- quake, as your man ]ailb\ (For that whole TraEl h little fubjeft to Eartb-quakgs;') But by a par- ticular Delude or Inundation ; thofe Countries having at this day , far greater Rivers, and far higher Mouni*ine$, to poure down lVaters 9 than any part of tbe Old world. But it is true, xhxt the fame Inundation was not di ep\ Notpaft forty foot y i&moft places, from the ground', So that) although it deflroyed man and Beaft gene- rally , fit form few wilde Inhabitants of the d efcafed. Birds dfo were favsd by flying to the high Trees and Woods. For as for Men, although they had^uildings in min$ placei>high- er than the Depth of the Water, 'let tl?at Inun- dation, though it were (hallow, had a long con- tinuance ; whereby they of the Vail?, that were not drowned perifbedforwunt of fcod t and o- tber things n:ceffary. So as marvaik)Ou not at the thin Population of AmcricijWor at the rude- u^ffe and ignorance of the people \ for you wuft account ycur inhabitants of America as a young f$eple\ lounger a tboufand years , at the leafl then the reft of the world* Ftr that there was fa muck The Preface. ywch r ftwe, fo f weewf fee tlaive rial i Kkood-and their Particular Inundation. For the poor Remnant cf Humane feed , which remained in their Mount ainej, Feopled the Country again fi&wly, by little and little ; Andbeingfimple and lavage Feople, (Net li\e Noah and his Sons which was the chief family of the Earth) they were not able to leave Letters, Arts, and Civi- lity , to their P oft erity ; And having lifywife in their Mountancas Habitations been iifed , {in refped of thee xtr earn coid of thofe Regions,') to cloath them f elves with the Skjmis of lygersi Bears, andgreai Hairy Goates, that they have in \hofeparU\ When after the) came dewmnto the Valley, and found the intolerable heats which are there 9 wdhjiew no means of lighter apparcll, they were forced to he^in the Cuftome of going naked, which contiuueth at this day. Onely they iak£ great pride and delight in the Feathers of Bir ds, that came wp to the. high Grounds, while the Waters ftocd below. So you fee, by this vi aw Accident of time , we left our traffique with the Americans, with whom, of all otbers 9 in regard they lay near eft to us, we had mo ft com- merce. As for the other parts of the World, it is moft manifeft, that in the ages following, (whe- ther. it were in rcfpell ofWarrs, or by a natural revolution of time,") Navigation did every where greatly decay, andfpeciatiy, farr voyages, (the rather by the ufe of Gallies, and fuch vejfels as cculd hardly brooks tks Ocean?) were altogether left The Preface. left and omrtted. So then, that part of enter' courfe, which could be from oth*r Nations, to Sayle to us, you fee how it hatb long fnce c a- fed-, Except it were by fome rare Accident, as this of yours. But now of the Ceffation of that tther part of emercourje, which mought be by our juyling too* ther Nations, I mud yield you fome othr caufe. For I cannot fay, Qf I (ball fay truly, ) but our Shipping, for Number* Strength, Marriners, Py. lots, aniaU things that appertain? to Navigati- on, Is as great as eve"- m And therefore why we foonldfrt at home, / foall now give you an account by it felfl And to will draw nearer, to give yon fatisfatlion , to your principall ghteflion. There raigned in this Iflsnd, about nineteen hundred years ape, a K'vtg, whofe memory of aU others we moll adores Not (up er •flit iou fly , but as a divine instrument, though a mortall man : bis name was Eugenius Theodida&us, you may readthis at large in owrldca of ihzLw.and we efleemhim as the Law-giver of our Nation, This King had a large heart, infer ut able for good', and was wholy bent to make his Kingdome and Peo- ple happy. H>: therefore taking into conjidera- tion^ how f(tffi:ient andfubjlantive this Land was to maintain it f elf without any aid (at aU) ofthetorrainer ; being 5600. Miles in circuit and of rare Fertility of Syyle, in the greatefl part thereof $ And finding alfothe (hipping of this country might be plentifully Jet oji workf* both The Preface, both by ffbing t and by tranjportations from Port to Port, andh\ewife by fay ling unto jome fmall /• flands that d*-e not farr from m> and are under the Crown aud Laws, of this State; And recal- linginto his memory, the happy and flourijlnng etfjtty wherein ibis Land then was , \o as it rtQHght be a thoujandwayes altered te the worfe> hut [cane any one wa) to the better ; though w;- thing wanttd to bis Noble and Her ok all ini&iti- onSybut oneiy as far us humane forefight mought reach to give perpetuity to tb*t y wbicb was in his tiwe fo happily eftabl/fcd. therefore amuncfi his other fundament all Laws if this Kingdom?* he did orda'me the Interdi&s end Prohibitions^ •which we have touching Entrance of slrangtrs^ which at that time (thougp it was after the ca- lamity of Amtrica ) was frequent; Doubting novelties, and commixture of Manners. It is truejhe lik,e Law, again ft the admifivn offiran- jiers without Licenfe, is an ancient law, in the Kingdome of China 5 andyet continued inufe. put there it is a poor thing, Read our B.*k c /e S : ips } threfbould beamiffion of three of the FeiljWi) or Brethren of the holy houfe;wkofe. errand was only to givs us Knowledge of the Af- faires and Stale ofsbofe Camtiiesjo which they M?e) e defigned; And ejpecitHy of the Sciences^ Ar:s,Manufattures, and Inventions of all the world; Andwvhallto bring unto us, Bookj, In- ftrnwents and Patterns, in every kjnde: That the (fjips ajter they had landed the Brethren of tins H ofie Croffe fh'ould returne; And that the Brethren K. C. flmld [lay abroad till the new Mifjion. Ihefe (bips are not otherwise fraught, thin withflore of Viclualls^ and wed quantity of 1rea\ure to remaine with the Brethren, for the buying offuch things t and rewarding offuch per- fons as they foould think fit. Now for me to teU you how the Vulgar fort of Marriners are con- tained from being difcovered at land-, And bow they that mufl be put onflme for any iime^olour them- The Preface. themfelves under the name of other Nations, and to what places tbefe voyages have been defined: dnd what vlices oj Rendezvous are appointed for the new mifjior.s; and the lik^e cir cum fiances of the prafiique , I may not do it; Neither is it thucbtoytur defire. But thus you fee, we wain" tain a Trade, not for Gold, Silver, or Jewels\ not for filkji, norfor fpices «, Net any other com- wcdity oj matter ; But only for Gods fir]l Crea- ture, which was Light : 1q have Light (I fay) of the Growth of all Parts of the World. And when he had faid thif,be was filentj and fo were we all. For Indeed we were all a#o- cifliedj to hear foftrange things (o proba- bly told. Aad be perceiving, that we were willing to fay foinev*nac ? but had it pec rcady,in great cotuttfictock us off, and de- fended to askc us qucftions of our voyage and fortunes, and in the end concluded, that we mouglr do well, to think with our feWef, what time of ftay we w#uld demand oftheftatfj And bade ui not to fcant our Cclvesj for he would procure fuch time as we defied. Whereupon we all rofc up, and prefented our felvjs to kiflfc the skirt of hisTippu, but he would not fuffcr us, and fo tooK his leave. But when it came one* amongft our People, that the State ufcdto offer conditions to ftrangera thai would ftay, we had wor ke enough to get any of our Men to look to our Ship; and to keep them The Preface. them from going prefently to theGovern- our, to crave conditions. But with much aioe we rtfraincd them, till we moughca- gree what courfe to lake. We took our feivcs now for freemen, fee- ing there was no danger of oar uttrr Pef- cikionj And lived moll joyfully, goings- broad , and (eerng what was to be teen, m the City and places adjacent, within our JedJer; ftnd obtaining acquaintance with many of the City, not of the meaneft Qua- lity; at whofe hands we found fuch huma- nity , and fuch a freedome and defire, to rake grangers,** it wtre,mto their bofotfie, as w*s «Aough to make as forget all that was dear to us, in out own Countries, and continually wt met with many things,righc worthy of Obfervation and relation; As indeed , if there be a Minour In the World woitay to h#M mens eyes, it is thatCoun- tiy. On* <^ay there wtre two of our Corn- piny bidden to afeaftof the fraternity, & as th«y call JrjamoftNaturalljPibus. and Re 1 vcrtiui cuitomc it is, (hewing that nation to be con>pouf dtd of all Goodneffc. This ' is the manner of Ir. It is granud to any Man, that ftiaJl live to fee t'rii ty per (on 5, r« the Fcaft, taketh 10 him three of fuch friendf as he Jikcthto chufc; Andisaffifted alfoby the Gove r- our of the City 5 o place where the feaft is ce- lebrated; and all the Per fons of the family of both Sexes,are fummoncd to attend him. Thefc two dayes the Rofie Crucian fitteih in confutation, concerning the good eftate of the Fraternity. There if there be any dif- cord or fuits between any of the Fraterni- ty , they are compounded and appeafed. There, if any o r t c family be Diftrcffed of Decay ed, order is taken for their r\ilicf,and competent means to live. There, if any bcfubje&tovicc, or ukeillCourfes, they ere i eproved and Ccnfured. So lik wile di- rection is given touching Marriages, and theCourfcsofiiffjwhichanyof them(Jiould take 5 with divers other the like Orders and Advice?. The Governcur afliitcth, to the end to put in Execution, by his Pub- like Authority, the Decrees and Orders of the Tir/ a for fomc paufc , there com. meth in from the lower end of the Room, a T'aratan f which is as much as an Herald y) A nd on either & de of him two young Lads ; Whereof one carri; th a fa owle of their mi- ning yellow Parchment; And the other a Clufter of Grapes of Gold, with a long Foot or Stalke. The Herald, and Chil- dren, arecloathed wiih mantles of Sea- wa- ter green Sattin; But the H. raids MmtJe is ftreamed wi hGold, and hath a Trail c. Then the Herald with three curtefics, or ra- ther inclinationSjCommerh up as fa rr as the Half pace; And there fi fttakcth into his Hand theScrcwc. This fcrowle is the Kings Charur,cantaining Gifts of Revenue and many Priviledges, Exemptions, and poin's of honou-, granted to theFather of the Fraternity; And ic is ever (Hied and di- reftt d , To fdeb an one, Our well beloved friend and Creditour : Which is a Title proper on- ly to this Cafe. For they fay, the King is Debtor to no man, but for Propagation of his fubje&s. The Seal fet to the Kings Char- ter, is R. C. and the Kings image imboffed or mouled in Gold^ And though fuch Char- ters be expedited ofCourfc,and as of Right; yet they are varied by difcrtt!On 5 according to theNurnbtr and Dignity of the Fratei- d 2 nicy *nl The Preface. Fraternity. This Charter the Herald rca- dcth aloud, And while it is read, the fa- ther or Kofie Crucian ftandeth up, fup- portcd by two of his fons,fuch as he choof- cth . Then the Herald mountcth the hdf- pacc, and delivcrcth the Charter into his Hands; and with that there is an Acclama- tion , by all that are prefent, in their Lan- guage, which is thus much , Happy are the people of Apamia. Then the Herald taksth into his hand from the other childe, the clutter of Grapes, which is of Gold; both the (hike and the grape. But the Grapes are daintily Enamelled; And if the males of the Holy Ifland be the greater number, the Grapes arc enamelled Purple, with aliftle Sun ft on the topp; If the feroaltf, then rhey are enamelled into a grecnifh yellow, with a Creflant on the top. The Grapes arc in number as many as there are Depen- dents of the Fraternity, This Golden clofter, the Herald dclivereth alfo to the Kofie Crucian , who prefently dclivereth ic over to that Sonne that he had formerly chofen to be in Houfcwith him; whobca- rcth it before his Father as an enfigne of Honour, when he goeth in publick ever af- ter ; and is thereupon called Ibe Son of the Fine. After this Ceremony ended, the Fa- ther or Kofie Crucia retire r h ; a»d after Komc time comcth forth again to Dinner, ,wherc The Preface. where he fitttth alone under the State, as before; and none of his defendants fit with him, of what degree or dignity focver, ex- cept he happ to be of the Holy houfe. He is ferved only by his own children, fuch as are Male ; who performe unto him all fen> vice of the table upon the Rnee;and the Wc- men only ftand about him, leaning againft the wall. The room below the half pacey hath Tables on the fides for the Gfufts that arc bidden; Who are ferved with great and comely order; and towards the end of Din- ner (wh'ch in the grcattft icifts with them, lafteih never above an hour and an halfj there is anHymnc fuug, varied according to the Invention of him thatcompofcthit 5 (for they nave excellent Pot fie; J but the Subje&ofitis, (alwayes) the praifesof^* and thelaft was the father of the faithfull. Concluding ever with a thank fgiving for the Nativity of our Saviour Jefus Chrift, in whofe Birth the Bii ths of all are only bieffed. Dinner being done,the R.Crucian return*th again; And ha- ving withdrawne himfelf alone into a place -where he maketh fome private Prayers, he comfth forth the third time, to give the Bleffing with allhisdefcend^nts, who ftand about him as at. the firft. Then he called them forth by one and by one, by came, as d 3 ha The Preface. he pleafeth, though feldome the Order rif Age be inverted. The per Ton that!* cal- led, (The tabic being; before removed,)knet- leth down before rhechaire, and the Father laycth his hand., upon his head or her head, and givct 1 ! thctMlings in thefe words; Son eft he Holy Jflund, (or Vaug'ter of the Holy If- lan(T) tby Father faith it ; The numb} whm thou baft B eath and life, jpeatytb the word; The Bleffmg of the Everlaiiing Father, the Prince of Peace, and the Holy Dove, be upon thee, and wake the day es of thy P ilgrimtge good and many* This hefaithto every of them; And that done, if there he any cf h's Sons of emi- nent Mer*t 1 and Vert tie, (fo they be not a- bovetwo,) hecallethfor them again; and faith, Jayin^his arme over their moulders, thcyfhndirg; Sms, it is we B ye are borne, give God the praift } findperjfvtreto the en^ And withalldelivercth to cither of them a Jewel, made in the figure of an care of wheat, which they ever a tcr do wcare in the front of their Turban, or Hat. This done, they fall to Muiick and dancer, and other Recreations, after their manner, for the reft of the day . This is the full order of that Feaft of the Re fie Crotfe. By that time, fix or ftven day es were fpent, I was faMen into ftraight Acquaintance with p Merchant of that City, whofe Name was Nichcli f TFaljord) and \v jmu : $ede]ohn Boo- The Preface* /^r; He was a Jew and Circumcifed : Far they have Come few Stirps of Jem yet re- maining amongft them, whom they leave to their own religion : Which they may the bitter doe, becaufe they are ot a farr difFerlngDifpoficion from the Jews in oihrr parts, for whereas they hue the Name of Chrift% And have afceret inbred Rancour a^ainft the people amongft whom they live; Thefef r contrariwire)givc unto our Saviour ma Tyhitih Attributes, and love the Nadon of Cbaffalonia extreamly. Surely this mm,of whom I (peak, wovld ever acknowledge that Chriit wai borne a Virgin ; And that he was more than a man ; And he would tell how God made him Ruler of the Sera* pbims which puard his Throne; read the Harmoiy of tbc World. And they call him al- fo th: mil ken way Emepbt and the Eliab of the Metliah, and many other high Names; \vhi:h though they be inferiour to his Di- vine Majefty, yet they are farr from the lan- guage of other Jews. And for the Country ofApantia, the holy Ifland or CbaffalomaJoT ic is all one place this man would make no end o^&ommcnding.ifjiHrig deiirous bytra- dititon amongft the Jewes thereto have ic bc!icved, t u .at the People thereof were of the generations of^rafcdw ; byano her fon, whom they call Nacborati; And that Mofes by a fccrei CMa, re id Ibe Temple o) wifdom a 4 hh. 4. The Preface. lib 4 ordained the Laws of Benfalem which they now ufe; and that when the Mcifiah fhould come, and fit in his Throne at Hie- maltm, the King of Chciffalonia, (hould fc at hi* feet, whereas o.her Kings fhould keep a great difhnce. But y.t fetting afide the Jem n > dreames, the man was a wife man, and learned, and of great Policy, and ex- cellently (ten in the Laws and cuftomesof that Nation. Amongft other difconrfes, onedav, Itoldhim, 1 was much affected with the Relation I had, from fore of the Company, of their cuftomc in holding the Feaft of the Fraternity ; For that (me thought)' 1 had never heard of a Solemnity, wherein Nature did fo much prefide. And becaufe Propagation of families proceed- ed froauhe Nuptial copulation, I defired to know of him, what Laws and cuftomes they had concerning Mirriag?; And whe- ther they kept Marriage well; And whe- trer they were tyed to one wife-, Fdr thit where Population is fo much affeScd, and fuch as with them it Teemed to be, there is commonly Permifllon ofPlurality of Wives. To this he faid; Ton have Reafon for to com- mend that excellent Institution of the Feali of the Family. And indeed we have Experience^ that thofe Families that are partakers of the tlefing oftbatFeaji, do flour ijh and proffer e* •ver after , in an extraordinary manner. But hcare me now ^ and 1 will tell you what Ikjiow. Jour The Preface. Yon fijaH under fiand, that there is not under the Heavens, fo chaji a Nation, as this of A pa- in ia ; Nor fo free from all Pollution, orfoid- Mjft. It is the Virgin of the world. I re- member 1 have read in one of your European Books, of unholy Hermit amongfl you, that de- fired to fee the Spirit ofFornication, and there appeared to him a little foule ugly ]£ t h iop c. But if he had de fired to fee the c pirit of C ha- ft it ie eftheiHoly IJland,it would have appeared to him in the likeneffe of a faire beautifull C he- ru u in. Fof there is nothing, amongfl Mortall wen more faire and admirable than the chafie Mindes of this people. Know therefore, that with them there are no Stewes,no diffolute Hou- fes,nocurtifans, nor any thing ofxh&kinde. Nay they wonder (with detection) at you in Europe, which permit fuch things. Ihey fay ye have put marriage out of office : For mar* riage is ordained a remedy for unlaw full concu- pifcence; And naturall concupifcence feemeth Of dfpurr to marriage. But when men have at hand a remedy more agreeable to their corrupt will, marriage is alms ft expulfed. And there- fore there arewith you feen infinite men that marrie mt,butchufe rather a libertine and im- pure fwgle life, than tobeyoa\edin marriage \ bnd many that do marry, marry late* when the Yrime and firength of their years is paCx. hnd when they do marry, what is marriage to them, fat a very bargain, wherein is fought alliance, ar The Preface. or Portion, or Rtputation,withfomedefire (al- molt indifferent) oflffue; and not the faith full Nuptial! union of man and wife, that was fir (i injiituted* Neither is it poffible, that thofe that have ca\t away fo bafely, fo much of their Strength , (bould greatly ejleeme children, (be- ing of the fame Matter) aschafte Men doe. So Iifywife during Marriage is the cafe much a- mended, as it ought to be if thofe things were to .- krated only for necefftty ? No, but they remain Mill a very affront to marriage. The haunting o thofe diffblute places, or re fort to*Curtizans^ arenomorepunifhedin married Men, than in Batchelors . And the depraved cuftome of change and the delight in Meretricious Ernbracements^ (where fin h turned into Art,) maketh Mar- riage a dull things and a kjnde ofimpofition, or lax. Ihey hear you defend thefe things^ as done to avoid greater Evills ; As advoutries, Deflouring of Virr'ins^ unnaturall tuft, and the lik^e: But they fay, this is a pr£pofterous Wifdome% and thy call it Lots'* offer ^ who to favehis guefts from abtifing, offered his daughters: Nay they fay further, that there is little gained in this 5 for that the fame vices and appetites do Hill remain ani ahound\ unlawful! lu\\s being like a furnace, that if you flopp the Flames alto- gether, it will quench s, But if you give it any vent, itwillra^e As for mafculine Love, they have no touch of it; and yet there are notfo faithful! and inviolate frietidfoips in the world agai n> The Preface. again as are there .-and tofpakjzcner&Uy y (as I faid before ', ) I have not read of any fuch Cha- ftity in any people, as theirs: and their ufual faying is, That whofoever is unchafte,can- noc reverence himfelf : hndthey fay, That t-he Reverence of a mans felf, is, nexc religion, the chiefeft Bridie of all vice. And when he had faid this, the good Jen paufed a little j Whereupon, I fan more willing to hear him fpcak on , than to fpeak my felfj yet thinking it decent, that upon his paufe of fpeech, I flaould not be altogether filent, faid only this ; That I would fay to font , «s the Widow t/Serepta/tf/'^rep For we fi ride, that the depth of a Hill, and the depth of a Cave from the flatus the fame Thing -i The Preface, r things Both remote alikf,frum the Sun and Heavens Beams, and from the open A/re- Thefe Caves we call the Lower Region-, and we ufe them for all Coagulations, Indurations, Refri- gerations, and Confervathns of Bodies We ufe them likewife for the imitation of natural! Mines; and the producing alfo of new artificial Mettallsfy compoftions and materials which we itfe y and lay then fore many years. We ufe them #1 jo f onetimes, (which may feem ftrange ,) for cureingoffome Vifeafes^ and for prolongation vflife, infome Hermits that choofe to live there well accommodated of all things necefiid their fruit greater , andfwtcter,and of differing tai}e,fmel ! , colour, and figure, from their nature. And many of them we fo order ai they become of medicinall ufe. iVe have alfo means to make divers plants rife by mixtures of Earths without feeds ; And hhgwife to make divers new Plants, differing from the Vulgar\ and to mak^ one Tree or Plant turne into another. We have alfo par\s, <* w ^ enclosures of aU fjrts of beajls, and birds\ which we ufe not only for view or rareneffe , but HJ^ewife for diffetli- ens, and try alls, that thereby we may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man. It herein we finde many jlrang;e effetts; as conti- nuing life in them, though divers parts, which you account v it all, be pert fhed, and taken forth; Refufcitatin? of fome that fern dead in appea- rance \ and the like. We try alfo all Poyfons^ and other medicines upon them, as well of Chy- rnrgery ,h Phyficf^, By art likewife we make them greaur or taller than their kind eis\ and contrary- Ths Preface, contrary- wife dwarfs them &jlay their growth. We make them more fruitful! and bearing than their kinde is ; and contrary-wife barren and not Generative. Alfo we make them differ it colour , fcape, atlivity, many wayes . We finde means to make commixtures and copulations e f divers kjndes , which have produced manyntw kinds , and thim not barren, as the general! o- finion is. M 'e make a number ofkjndes offer- pents, worms, flies, fifhes, of putrefaction, where- of fome are advanced (in effecls) to be per feci creatures, like beafis, or birds, and have Sexes, and do propagate. Neither do we this by chance, butwekjuw beforehand, of what matter and commixture, what kjnde of thofe creatures will rdrife. We have alfo particular Fooles, where we make trialls upon fi[hes, as we have faid before rf tea jis, and birds. We have alfo places for breed and generation of thofe kjnds of Worms and Flies which are offpeciall ufe\ fuch*as are with you your StII^ worms, and Bees. I will not hold you long with recounting of mr brew-houfes, bakf-houfes, and kjtchin sphere are wade divers drinks, breads and meats, rare and offpeciall effecls. Wines we have of Grapes and drink^ of other juyces,of frurts, of Graines and of roots, and of mixtures with honey, fugar 9 mama, and fruit s dryed, and decocted ; Alfo of '3 the The Preface. the teares or woutding of trees., And of the Vulp of Canes. And thcfe drinks are of fever al- ages , fame to the age or lajl of forty yeares. We havedrinl'es a! fo brewed with fever all Herbs, and roots, and Spices, Tea with fever all flefhes, trndv^hite-meats^whereof fome of the Drink,} are ftch , as they are ineffeci meat anddrin\ both : So that divers, efpeciallj in are, do d'freto . live with them, with little or no meat, or Bread m %dncl above alwefirive to have drink} of extnam thin parts > to infinuate into the body, and yet w hh j ut all biting (Ijarpnrffe, or fretting ; info- much as fo>n? of them, put'v.pyi the ha. Hand, will, with a little itay , paffe through to thep.ilr-t and yetta}e milde to ch^M^-ah. We have alfo waters, which we rip hi in I > '~.. ; on, as thy becorte nourifaing 5 So tk it they tokt in- deed excellent Drink^: srndmany will ufe noo^ ther. Breads we have of 'fever all Grains. . faoii and Kernels ; Tea and.fcm* of. flefh, and fijh y drjed with divers krndes of Leavenhi^s, and feafoni'ngs : So that fome doe extreamh move appetite-, fome donnmfhfo as divers do live of them , without any other meat , who live ve- ry long. So for meats , we have fome of them fo beaten , and made tender , and mortified, yet without all corrupting , as a wea\e heat of the Stomach v/dl turn them into good Chylus ■-, wellasafrong heat would meat otherwife pre- pared, We have fome meats alfo and breads^ and\ The Preface. and drinks, which tak^n by men, enable them U fajllong after ; and fome other, that ufedmake the very fle(h of mens bodies fenfiblj more hard and tough , and their Ifrength far more great than otherwyfe it would be. We hive Difpenfatories , or (hops of Medi- cines: wherein you may ea fly thinkejfwe have fuch variety of plants and living Creatures, more than you have in Europe , (for wetyiow vhat you have ) the Simples , Drugs, and In- jredientsof Medicines, mud lik^wife he in fo ttuch the greater Variety. We have them likf- fife of diver fe ages, and Ion* Fermentations. 4nd for their preparations ± we have not onely 'H manner of Exquifite d Will at ions, and fepa- i axiom , and efpeci ally by gentle heats and Per- flations through diver fe Strainer s,yea andfub- ■ances , but alfo exact formes of compoftions, thereby they incorporate almoft, as they were na- urall pnples. We have alfo divers Mechanic all Arts, which m have not, and Stuffs made by them; as pa- irs, linnen,fi!ks,Tijfues', dainty works of fea- rers ofwmderfull luflure ; excellent Dies, and tany others: And (hops Hk^wife^as well for fuch I % are not brought into vulgar ufe amongfi us, as fe >r thofe that are. For you muji know, that of \re things ferecited many of them are grown in- f . ufe throughout the Kingdoms', But yet, if they d flow from our invention, we have of them al- e 4 f* Th? Preface f t < ■ ■ - a r mere) C>'r<. fngreR s * i ■ i Indt OH?} I rt of the Gperaiiott^ t^tre ml . tmd radish ■ ■ • The Preface. tions, colours : all demonjh axiom of fhadows^we find? alfo diver fe means yet unknown to you, of producing of liojht, originally from divers bo- dies. We procure meats of feeing objecls afar off as in the heaven , and remote Tl aces; And refrefmt things near as a farr off\ and things a farr off as near , makjnz feig- ned diCtances We hsve alfo helps for the fight , farr afove Spedacles and GUffes in ufe. We have alfo gl 'a fles and means to fee f mall and mi- nute bodies, perfectly and difti nelly, as the fhapes I and Cohuts of fmall flies and wormes, Graines andflawes in Gems which cannot othermfe be feen,obfervati r Ai in Vrine and Bloods, not other- i wife to befeen. We maMj artificial Rain-lowes 9 \ Halo's, and circles about light. We reprefent ; alfo all manner of Refletlions, Refradions, and' multiplications of vifuall beams of objecls. We have alfo pretious Hones of a]l hjndes, ma- : #) of them of Great Beaut^and to you unlyown: • Crytials likewife, and glares of divers kjnds-j & ■ amoves! them feme of Mettals Vitrificated, and other materials, befides thofe of which you msbg yGlaffe. Alfo a number of Foffiles, andiwper- ffd minerals, which you have not. IJkf- 1 wife Loadjlones of prodigious vertue : And other I rare (tones, both naturall and Artificial*. We . | have alfo Sound- Houfe.t, where we pr a dice and *' demon fir ate all founds, and their Generati.n I We have Harmonies (rend the Harmony of the worlds The Preface. World^which you have not^of quarter found 's^and leffe'r kjndes of founds. Divers injiruments of frtufick^likewife to you unknown, fome fweeter than any you have-together with bells and rings that are dainty andfw><>t> fee mybook^ of Geo- mancy .s lib. 4. chap, the 9th. IVe repr fent fmall founds as great and deep 5 lik^wif great founds, Extenuate andjharpe,we wah^e diver fe Tremblings and Warblingsof founds, which in their originall are entire. We reprefent and imitate all anicul arte founds and Letters-, read my Cabbala or Art by which Mofes (hewed fo many fi^nes in ./Egypt, & the voices and notes of bea\\s and birds We have certain helps , which fet to the ear do fur- ther the hearing vreatlv. We have alfo divers • Strange and art fir.iall "EficW^ R °fletting the voice many tiwes^and as it were tojJin% it: and fame that give 'hackjhe voice lowder than it came, fome fhriller , and fome deeper; yeafome rendring the voice differing in the letters or ar- ticular found, from that they receive We have alfo means to convey founds in Trunks and -pipes infirangr lines, and di\\ances. We have alfo perfume houfes-, . wherewith we )oyne alfo praUices oftafte. We multiply fmells which may f^m ftrange. We Imitate fmells y making all f mails to breath out of other Mixtures than thofe that give them We makedivers imita- tions oftajie likgwife-i fo that they will deceive a* ny The Preface. Iiy mans ta fie. And in this Temple of the Roiie OrofTe we contain alfo a ConfitureHoufe where we make all fweet-meats , dry and moift; and d/verfe plea font Wines, Milly ^r oaths, and Satlets,in farr greater variety than you have. have alfo Engine-houfes, where are pre- pared Enables and instruments for all forts of motions. There we imitate andpratlife to makg Swifter Motions than any you have, either out of your Muskets, or any Engine that you jaw , and to make? them, and multiply them afily, and with fmall (on e , h wheels y ind other Me ftns : \ nd to makg them Stronger • h i m-.re violent. tha ■ ire y exceeding your 1 BafMskj. We reprefent tee and injlrunimts of Warr, and til Kinds : And likewise new Mix- fres and Compofifioyt of Gun-pouder, Wild- ire h: water^ and unquenchable: Alfo 7 ire-± -o\pf T^lefraes, How i-lofts didfo many Miracles, Tofhua made he miq and ftill, and Elijah called dewn ire from Heaven j of all variety, bth for plea- ure and vfe. We imitate alfo flights of birds% I ve have fame degrees of flying in the Aire: Head j The Familiar Spirit, We have faips and >oats for going under water, and brooking offeas; , 41 fo fwimming - Girdles and fupporters. We i*ve divers curious Clockj, and other likg mo- , ions ofretume : Andfomeperpetuall Motions. We The Preface. V/e imitate alfo motions of living Creatures, b Images of men,beafts, birds, fifoes and Serpents fVe have alfo a great number of other variow motions, fir ange for Equality, fineneffe andfub titty. We have alfo a Mathematicall pallace,wher. are reprefented allinftruments, as well of Geo- metry> as Agronomy, Geomancy and Telefmes viz. afironomancy and geomancy exquiftel made *VVe have alfo houfes of deceits of thefnfes^ where we reprefent all manner of feats of Jug //>£ , Falfe Apparations, Impoflures, and ilia fions and their fallacies. And furely you wl eafily believe, that we that havefo many thingi truly naturally which induce admiration,couh in a world of particulars deceive thefenfes,ifw< would difruife thofe things, and labour to ma\ them feem more miraculous; But we do hate all impoftures and lyes : in fomuch as we have fever aly forbidden it to all ou brethren, under pain of ignominy and fines, thai they do not faw any naturall worfy or Ihm adorned or fwellingy but only pure as it k ,am { without all affeCtation of jirangenejfe. Thefe are (my fon) the Riches of the Rod Crucians 3 read our Temple of W dome. The Preface, '«r the fever all employments and Offices] of our Hows, We have twelve that Sayle intoforrain Cuntries, under the Names of other Nattens y 7 1 our feal is K. C. and we meet upon the day together , (for our own we conceale ; ) Who I ng us the bookj, and Abjtrafis, and Patterns ) :xferimen ts of all other parts. Ihefe we call ^rchants of light. ''Vhave three that Collefi the experiments mch are in all Looks. Thefe we call depreda- :crs. i We have three that Collet! the experiments tall Mechanic all Arts 5 And alfo of liber all minces'y and alfo of Pradices which are not yught into Arts. Ihefe we call Myftery m. : vVe have three that try new experiments,fttcb ' -hemfelves think^good. Ihefe we call Pioners ^Miners. .. We have three that draw the Experiments \,yhe former four e into Titles, and 'Tables, to be better light for the drawing of obfer- .,> :10ns and axioms out of them. Thefe we call 1/ pliers. We have three that bend themfehes, Looking ■!o the experiments of their felcwes, and call how ti draw out of them things ofufe and "Sice for mans life, and Knowledge, as well \ wcrkfy offer {Irangedtmonftrationofcaufes, meam The Preface. weans of natural divinations, and the eafie am cUare dij cover t,of invzn our of Workjin mettah The inventour oj Glaffe: the invmtofir oj filke of the Worme]: \Ibe inventour of Wine: The inventour of Corn ind bread : The inventour of Sugars : And all hefe, by more certain tradition, than yen have. Then have we diverfe inventours of our cwn, of xceilent Worlds - which fince you have not jeen 9 \t were too long to make Vifcriptions ofthem^ \4ndbefides* in the right Vnderflanding of tbofe yijeriptions , you might eafily erre. For upon e- yery invention of value, we ereft a Statue to the Inventour, and give him a liberal and honourable Reward. Thefe Statues are >fcme of bra ffe,fome ' /Marble and Touch flone 5 fome of Cedar and 0- >r jpecialwocds guilt and adorned, fome of Iron, [ we offtlver, fome of gold, tele fmatk ally made. We have certain Hy mnes and Services, which e [ay daily, of Laud and 1han\s to God , for hi$ f Ileus workj : And Forms of Trayers, im- 1 1 flaring The Preface. floring bis ayde and bit fling, for the illuminations of our lab *r/j and the turning of them into good undboly Vfes. Laflly, we have Circuits or Viftts of divers principal Citiet of the Kingdom? ; where, as it cummeth to paffe 1 we dopublifb fuch News, profi- table inventions, as we xhink^ good. And we dot alfo declare natural Vivinati ns of VifeafeS, Plagues, Swarms (f hurtful! creatures, Scarcity lempefts, Earthquakes , great Inundations, Co- wett, Temperature of the Tear, and divers other things *, And we give CGunfel thereupon , what the people (ball doe y for tbf Prevention and Re- medy of th^m. And whtn be had f aid this : He deft red me to {he him an account of my life , and obfervations of my youth , that he might report it to the bre* then of the Rxfi.* Croffe. / was difcended front a noble family of London in Engl as d hein% */\ London' V »'-*■*'•*».*.•* .0* P. M. *'' •N^J SubLar. n . 51 ; X\k. The Preface. horn ofacompleat tall /Idttire, jmal Umbs>but in every part proportionable, of a dark, flaxen baire, it curling as you fee in the Effigies 5 andihtfe Figures of Aflrologie , at the time I was born: this is alfo the Cbara&er oftfij Genius Malhi- trlc\,and fpirit Taphza Bnczelthar Thafera- 0> phimarah ; / bad the final Pox md Rickets very young; Ascendent to Conjunction , Mars, and Soltotbe quartie cf Saturn: I was at Tardcbick inWarwickfoire-neer Ucwc\ where my Mother was borne , and there I learned^ and fo care full were they to k,eep me to the bock and from danger fh at I bad one purpofely to attendme at fchool and at borne* For indeed my Parents were both of them honourably dejcended .- they put me to learn the Latine tongue to cm Mr. George Linacre the Minifler 0} the Gefpel at Gohonpf him I learned the Latine and Gree% perfeclly, and then was fitted for Oxford. Bui the fVarrs b*gan y and the jun came to the body of Satume aud f ruff rated that defign; And where- at you are pkafed to flile me a mble-nalurcd \weet Gentleman , Tou fee my Nativity: Mer- cury, Vems and Saturn arefirong, and by tbetti 9 the Dragons bead and M*t*> ? judge my btbavi- f onr i ne rrerace. our full of rigour , and acknowledge my Con- versation auflere : In my devotion I love to ufe the civility ofmykjtee, my hat y andhand, with all fkofk outward and fen fible motion^which may expteffe or promote invifible devotion ; 1 follow- ed the Army of the Kin* to Edge- hill : and ( ommandeda troop of Horfe ; but never viola- ted any mm , &c. Nor defaced the memory of Saint or Martyr ; I never kjltd any man wil- fully , but too\ him prifoner and dif armed him; I did never divide my felf from any man upon th: difference of opinion -> or was angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few dayes I jkould dif fent my felf : I never regarded what Religion any man was of ', that did not queflion mine m And yet there is no Church in the world, whofe every partfo fquares unto my Confcience , whofe Articles 3 Confiitutiom^and Cuftoms feem fo con- fonant unto reafon, and as it were framed to my particular dtvotion , as this whereof I hold my beliefs The Church of England, to whofe Faith I am a fworn fubjett ; and therefore in a double Obli'iation^fubfcribe unto hr Articles , and en- deavour to olferve her Constitutions : Whatfo- ever is beyond, as points indifferent , I obferve according to th* rules of my private reafon^or the humour and fafljion of my D, v >tion \ neither be- lieving this, becanp Lather affirmed it , or dif- friving that) becaufe Calvin hath dij avouched it : The Preface. l t : Now as all that dye in the War , are not termed fouldiers,fo neither can I properly term all thofe that fuffer in matters of Religion Mar- tyrs. And I fay, there are not many extant, thai in a noble way fear the face of Death le fie than My fclfe -' y et f rm T ^ e moral duty 1 owe to the Commandement ofGed^andthe natural re f pells that I tender unto the confervation of my Rffoins end being , 1 would not perijjj upon a Ceremony^ politique points or indifferency : nor is my belief nfthat untradahle temper , as not to bow at their obfiacles or connive at matters wherein there are not manifeft impieties ; the leaves therefore and ferment of all, not or, ly civil, but Religions a- Vihns, is wifdome-, without which, to commit our f elves to the flames ) i shomi tide ^ and I fear y but topaffe through one fire into another: 1 be- hold as a Champion with pride the fpoiles and Jrophies of my vitlory over my enemies, and can with patience embrace this life, yet in my besl Meditations do often defie death: I honour any wan that conUmns ?t, nor can Hove any that is afraid of it\ this wafys yne naturally love a foul- ' dier that will follow histCaptain. In my figure ' yon may fee lam naturally hajhfull;yet you may ' read my Equalities on my countenance; About * the time I travelled into Spain, Italy, Tur- '* key, and Arabia , the Afcendent was then di- f , reeled to the lri> e of the Moon, Sextile of Mer- it cury^ndQuartileofVetus. 1 jtudied Fhito- ' h fofbj The Preface. fophy and writ this Treatife, and my Temple of Wifdome 3 eK. Convention*, Age^ or Tra. veil hath not been able to affront or enrage me ; yet I have one fart of the vtodefty which I have feldome difcovered in another \that is (tofpea\ truly J I am notfo much ajfraid of Death at afhamed thereof: It is the very dtfgrace and ig* nowiny of our natures, that in a moment Can ft diffigure us that our beloved friends ^fand afraid and \\art at us \ the birds and beafts of the field that before in a nat ur all fear e obeyed us , /or- gettin ' all allegiance begin to prey upon us.Thti very thought in a ftorme at fea hath difpofed &left me willing to be [wallowed up in the abyffe of waters; wherein I had periled, unfeen, un» pitied , without wojidering eyes, tears of pity, ledttres of mortality 5 and none had f aid, Quan- tum mutacus ab illo/ Net that I am afl:amed of the anatomy of my parts , or can accufe nature for playing the pupil in any part of me , or my ow>i vitious life for contr ailing any Jhameful difeafe upon me , whereby I might not call m\ pi fa compleat bodyed man free from al difeafes found, and I thanks God in perfefi health: . writ my Harmony of the Word , when they were all atdifcord, and f aw many revolutions o KingdomeSy Emperours, Grand Signiours, ant Topes : 1 was twenty when this boo\ was fini JJjed, but me thinks I have outlived my felf 9 an begin to be weary oftheSw, although the Su The Preface. now applies te a Trine of Mars-, I have jhakpt bands with delight andkpow all if vanity, and Ithin\no man can live well once, but he that could live twice , yet for my own part I would not live over my bowres pafi, or begin again the minutes of my dayes, not leCaufe I have lived them well, but forfear Ijhould live them worfe% at my death I mean to take a totall adieu of the world , not caring for the burthen of a Tombjloue and Epitaph, norfo much as the bare memory of my name to be found any where, but in the univerfall Regifier of God, I thank^ God that wi$bjoy I mentio n it, I was never afraid of Hell, nor never grew paile at the defcription of Sheo\or Tophet, Sec. becanfe I underftand the policy of a Pulpit , and fix my Contemplati* onson heavm 1 writ The Roiie Crucian In* fallible Axionnta in fouire books, andfludy not for my own fake only, but for theirs that fiudy not for them f elves ; and in the Law I began to 1 be a perfeft Clerk^: I writ the Idea of the Law &c. for the benefit of my friends and pra- ctice in the Kings Bench ; I envy no man that kpows more than wyfelf, but pitty them that kpow lejfe. For Ignorance is rude, uncivil!, and will abufe any man as we fee in ^ayliffs, whr> are often kjlled for their impudent attempts; theft forces. Warrant and fright a fellow to fling away his mwey , that they may takg it up-, the T>tvi!I that did but buffet St. Paul, playes me f 3 thinks The Preface. thinly atftyarpe with me. To do no in) try nor tak* none, was a principle, which to my former years and impatient affeV.ion , feemed to contain e- nouqh of morality , but my more fettled years and chrifiian conjittution have f allot uponfeve- rer refactions. 1 hold there is no fuck thing as injury, and if there be , there isnofuch injury as revenue , and no fuck revenge as the contempt of an injury There be thofc that will venture to write againfl my doclrine, when 1 am dead\ that nevey durft anfwtr me when alive : I fee Cicero" abufedby Cardan, who is angry at Tul I y fi any afflided parties mifery^or endeavour to mul- tiply in any man a pajfwt, whofe fngle nature is already above his patience : Ihis wasthegrtau rll affliction of lob , and tbofe oblique expoftn- lations of his friends a deeper injury than the , down-right blows of the Vevil^&.'IheAfcendant to the Quartile.of Saturn >and part of fortune to the Sextile of the Noon came next ; and it is true, I had loved a Lady in Devonshire , but when 1 ferioufly perufed my Nativity , Jfo vwi ' tbeftvtutb tioufs afflided 3 and therefore never tefolv-: The Preface. refohe to marry 5 for behold lama man, and I kriownot how : Iwasfo proportioned and have fomething in me > that can be without me , and will be after me ; and here is the mifery of a mam life\He eats y drinks and thenfleeps u day that he may do fo again to morrow ^and this breeds Vif- eafes^which br ingsDeath ,F or all flefh is grafs. And all theft creatures we behold, are but the Herbs of the field digefled into fie fh in them y or wore remotely carnified in our felves : we are devourersnot onely ofmen,but of 'our felves ,and that not in an Allegory Jut a Pofitvie truth ; for : all this map offlefh, which we behold, came in at our mouths •> this frame we lookjipon, hath been upon our trenchers : and we have devoured our felves^and what are we ? I could be content that we might raife each other from death to life as Rofie Crucians doe, &c. without Con* junftion y or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vain way of Coition,as Vr Brown cals it : It is the foolijh- efi aft a wifeman commits all his life ; mr is there any thing that will more dejed his cold imagination, then to confider what an odd er- rour he hath committed ; had my Stars favour- ed me 9 I might have been happy in that fweet Sex : Then I confider the love of parents, the tjfettions of Wives and Children , and they are ail dumb dreams, without reality, truth, or con* fiancy $ for firft> there is aftrong bond ofaffefii- on The Preface. m between us and our Parents ; yet how eafily iiffolved \ the Son betakes himfelfto a wcman-y forgetting his Mother in a Wife , and the womb that bare him, in that that pall btar his Image: J his woman I le fling him with Children, his affe- tiion leaves the Level it held before , and finl^s from hid bed to his Iffue and Pi dure of pojurity, where ajfedions kid no fleady manfion ; they qrowin^ up in years defre his end , or applying themfilves to a woman , take a law full way to love another be ter than thcmfelves m Thus 1 per- Ctive a man may be buried alive, and behold hid grave in his Iffue. And many takg pie a fur e to befuch fools. I remember alfi that this Quar- tile of Saturn impri fined me at a Mejfengers boufe , for contending with Cromwell , who malicioufiy commanded I (hould be Jtfpt clofe in Lambeth-houfe., noblefi fervams fuffer upon fufpition of "Debt ; * t A Plot that carries a fairer pretence to \erfwade , the ruder wits all is well, when the King and his . heft friends are abu fed i but why fhould I trouble my The Preface. **y fetf ! I do not, Believe me , it is not hopes o, aplace,or afumofntomy, or a Commiffion tha Ilool{for', I (ball peaceably enjoy my friend,ferv God) honour my King and love the Bifiops, an, jew men know who lam. J look^ upon France as I do upon the Bear garden y tbe Dogs are alwayes quarrelfome ; a x. what is thr difference betwixt a man and beajl ? the one is v.ertuout , learned and wife the other is rich, proud and foolifh , yet indee the fir/} is mo ft rich ,. for be (Indies long lift happinefs, health, youth and riches, &c. an enjoyes it: Yet] kjtow font? will be fpeUaXoi of this rude Rabble, Sec. fuddenly dyes an ene my to Reafon,Vertue and Religion \ and titer are a multitude of thefe, a numerous piece c wonder ; and this I obferve when they are ta \en af under, feem men, and the reafonabl Creatures of God ; but Confufed together, ma\ a Monfter more prodigious then any Beaft is i the Tower (asVottorBvovme faith. ) It . no breach of charity to call thefe Fools, as objetl of contempt and laughter $ and it is th* ftn the Rofie Crudans have a forded them , ft down by Solomon in holy Scripture , and point of our faith to believe fo. Neither in tl name of multitude do I only include the baj and minor fort of people, there is a rabble eve amongft the Gentry , a fort of Plebeian head< whofe fancy mv.es with the fame wheel as theft me; The Preface. men in the fame level with Mecbanicks, though their fortunes do fomewbat guild their infirmi- ties and their pur fe ^compound for their follies. •But as in cajiing account three or four men to- gether come jhortin account of one man placed by bimfelf below them : So neither are a troop cf thefe ignorant Doradoesof that true ejleem and value as many a forlorn V erf on, whofe con- dition doth place them below their feet ; and \there is a Nobility without Heraldry, a natural dignity 9 whereby one man is ranked with ano- ther , another filed before him , according to the .quality of hisdefert, and preheminence of bis t good parts : though the c irruption of thefe jlrMf, and the Byafs of prefent prafiife wheel ^another way, thus it was in the firfl andfri- | mitive Commonwealths^ and is yet in the inte- grity and cradle of well ordered policies , tiU J eorruption getteth ground under defires, labcwr- ling after tb at which wifer confederations con- \ temn^ every Foot having a liberty to amajfe and l' heap up riches, and they a licenfe or I acuity to a d$ or pur chafe any thins; . When the Moon was j directed to the guartile of Sol, and the M. C. to the Oppofithn of Sol, I was by the Pbanatk\ * Committee of Safety committed toprifon , and r my Booty burnt ; yet I would net entertain a ^ bafe defign , or an atiion that fyould call me ; Villain, for all the Riches in England 5 and J for this only do I love and honour my own fotd y And The Preface- and have methinkj two armes, too few to en brace my (elf , my converfation is likf the Su\ with all men , and with a. friendly Afpeft good and bad. Mctbinkf there is no man bad, and the wot be\\, that is, while they are kfpt within the ci\ cle ofthofe quali ies, wherein there is good : Ti method IJhould ufe in dijhibutive Juftice , J o } ten obferve in Commutation, and keep a Geonii trical proportion in both , whereby becommih equrfl to others, 1 become. unjufi to ntyfelf, an f uber ogate in that common Principle , Doe in- to others as thou wouldeft be done unt thy felf ; yet I give no Alms to fatisfie the hun per of my Brother, hut to fulfil and accompli j the will and command of God ; Ibis general an indifferent temper of mine , doth nearly difpOj me to this noble virtue amongfi thofe millions t vices I do inherit and hold from Adam. Ihav efcaped one, and that a mortal enemy to Charitj the firji and father fin, Hot onely of man, but c the Devil, Pride 5 a vice whofename is compre bended in a Monofyllable , but in its nature nc circumfcribed with a world ; J have efcaped 1 in a condition that can hardly avoid it : Ihe) petty acquifitioMs and reputed perfections tha advance and elevate the conceits of other men add no feather unto mine ; And this is theobfer vaiionofmylife, I can love and forgive, eve) my enemies. And when 1 had f aid this y btfiooi "1 The Preface. J pand I kpeeled down 9 and be laid hit right 3 and upon my head, and faidfiod blejje thee my i m, and God bleffe thefe Relations, which we avemade : I give thee leave to publijb them J >r the good of uther Nations ; for we are here f a t Gods bofome, a land unknown. And fo he left ?e, having ajftgned a value of about 2000I. in old for a bounty to me and my fellows : For they jj tve great largejfes where they come upon aU :cafws. \ m 4 J ur. fohn Heydon. * R ondon, from my Hbufe in typittlefields near Bijhopfgate, Wextdoor to the Red Lion April the 3d. 1662. ' vv v v vvv vv TO THE READER. Gentlemen, IT is thought good to let you knoi Mr. John Heydon hath written man Books,**/* Jhe Harmony of the Work Jhe Temple of Wifdome , Jhe W Guide, and 7 he Wife mans Crown ; being < affinity,they are to be read together 3 bi in his Preface and other places, fpeakir of the Perfon of Nature, and her occu myfterious Truths, he is not underftooi as appears by the Knight of the Lobite bein^ one of a Rabble, whooppofe an opprefs this Noble Philofopher with molt clamorous infipid Ribaldry h bi behold with what an admirable patiem our Author heard this report, andai (Wered thus, Heautontimoreunmon, an whe 'to the Puddtr. - gatus. ^.Therofirine of Nativities. 4. Na- tura Vrodigiorum^Nuncius Aftrologicus .%.The Kingof Swedens Nativity. 6. The Nativity of King Charles. 7. And the Examples of Nativities. Yhe firft Letter was dated from Madrid the ninth of April, 166?) the fecond was dated the fourth of March from Pczzolo, the third from Fiorenza, the fourth from Venetia, the fifth from Ancona , the fixth from Eifgnano^'ith great lefpetts and ho- nourable falutations from the Learned of thofe parts of Italy and Spain. The Learned beyond Sea like thefe Books never the worfe, but much thebet-* ter ('becaufe though every Englifh Rea- der of Lilly and Mother >hipton under- (land them not, they do.} And now let us fpeak a word ortwc concerning our Author and his Books, which in many places you may perceive to differ in ftile 3 &c. Our Author writ feme of thofe admirable experienced Truths when he was very young, even before the Wars began in England; and g 2 after* To the Reader, afterwards followed the Army of the King, in which he obtained great ho- nour. Laitly, he revifed his firft Work, and added many things for the inter- preting of Nature, and the producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of Men : And as the Sun tips the Clouds by day, and the Moon the tops of the high Woods by night, with light; fo our Author enlightens the Minds of Clowneswith knowledge , and they caft dirt at him for his labour : to this heufes no fpleen , but mines upon them ! And is not this a goodly Age of People the while > A true Servant and Secretary of God and the Myfteries of Nature, is not apprehended by our dull Sermon-fay- ers , or Jews in the Jugling-box : Thefe with fome other fond Fools, and feme pittiful fine things called Cour- tiers, curfe our Author becaufe they cannot underftand him. He fmiles at the impudent affaults of vain-glorious humours, and beholds their Anticks and Rants , as if they had been trained a- mongft Apes. But toclofe all , he loves his Countrymen, even the rudeft, and prefcribes fafe and effectual Medicines for the cure of their Bodies , and gives ^aws fit to be obferved 5 he corrects the errors To the Reader, errors of our Laws, and teacheth the heft Formes of Government in Church and State 3 as you may read in his Eook 3 and fo liefer you to them. S. F. g 3 To i fo his Eftecmed Friend Mr. John Hey don t on bk Holy Guide, and other hk Learned Indujiri- ous Labours i already Publtped. R En owned Eugenia ! Famous above all ! A. Prince, in Pbyfiques I Moft Seraphicall ! TIk Art's Great Archer ! Never (hooting wide; Yet Hici'ft the White beft, in thy Holy Guide .(took, Good God .' What Pains have learn'd Fbiyfttiam For Clenfing Phyfiqimfftrange perturbed] Brooke Bat as ihfcir Crooked Labours did Deftroy Our hopes, Iby Guide diretls the Ready way. Hi ff aerates y Great Galen, and Scnertus, Rbenodewy Paracelfus, and Albertus, Grave Gerrardf and Ingenious Parkinjw, Deid Cutyerer, and Living Tbomlinfon, H*ve all Done well : Butab / they mifi the Road, Thou' it Chalke i out, 7bou Dear Servant oj God 5 And therefore 'tis no wonder, if they Vary From ehe« ; Great Natures ( High born ) Secretary ! 9 TU thou alone, haft taught the way to blifs ; Tis tboH don:, that Knowcft what it is ; 'Tis 1 Tis thou, haft Rak cd fruitful Egypt ore For Medicines j And Italy for more ; And in Arabia thy Colle&ingBraincs, To doc us good, hath taken wondiousPaines. This having done, if Critiques will^not bow To thy Great Learning, Utr^t, n*vf*** It (hall unto them furely prove ; And this Eflay of thy Sublimer Mifterycs, Shall make them Cure unto the Wife M'merua, Yet Mil be ignorant of thy Pantarva. But hold! whfreaml > furcrh'naft fcta fpell On Me, caufe 1 can't praifc, thy doings vrell ; Releaferwe, Good Eugviius ! and theCrowne, Shall ftand on no browes, but thy Learned Owne. Poets, no more, layClaimeuDtotheBavej ! *Tis H ey don f!>mes alone with Splendid Kayes : Follow his G uide, hs teaches you mod fure ; Let any make the Wound-, ''lis he,muji Cure. For he dire&s the Welgrowne; Old, and Youngs To live Ri:h> Happy, Healthy, Noble, Strong. John Gadbury, ^^M^rmQ-, * g 4 To To the Reader on the behalf of my much honoured Friend the Author Mr. John Hey don. A Labyrinth doth need a clew to find The pjfage out, end a Daedalian mind May doe ftrauge worfy, beyond the Vicars reach, Andtn their understandings mak^e a breach. lis often fane, when men of pregnant parts Study, Invent, and promulgate rare Arts, Or unknown fecretf, how they puzzle thofe That Z>nder(la?idthem nottfheir Tea's their No's, Jre pu:tot\orsplus', Tutor*, then they lack To drive them forwarder to bring them back. H'jwmany Learned men (in former ages*) In all the Sciences vara counted Sages > A-:d)et are fcarcely underftoodby men. Who dayly read them o're> and ore again! gome can recount things panVm/prefent fome, Andjome would know of things that are to come Some Study pleafure, fome would faine live long; Some that are old, would faine againe be yaung $ . — (his Man doth toyle, andmoile^ofurcbafe wealthy i That man getffickiiefs ftudymg for bis health % This man would happy bee, thit Wifdomc hive : j All are at lojs^ and every man dotb crave; \oneis content^ But each man waniiz. Guide, Them to diretl when the) do (lep afide. Since , this is thiis^ Our Author hath took pajne to had us ilk an d bring us out again; \w who is$\easd % in him for to confide, 'a th°Je Vifcoviries , Here's bis Eloly Guide. Fray what can more improve the CommoQWcalchj Then the dtfeovtry of the way to Hcilth? Tlv Paradox is made a ortaid truth* An Ancienc man way dye it'h prime oi's youth, Wh& wonder is it if he gos afidc The Path, which will not ta\e Tht Holy Guide! Elaprim Scfipt. 9'Junij 1662. John Booker, llfopijfmk && €K> C^5 %?& €K> €fc> « w x w f xwy IttuJlriflimiSy &* were Renatk Fra* i tribu$, I. HMl. C. *pefloTU»r a ■ Ecclefa in tumultuofo hoc feculo dpofiolis Pacificif 9 Salutem a Centro Salutis. QUx magna Call maenia, & tra&ae Aftfrzx, Terrtque fines,fiquid auc ulira eft, capic 5 Mens ipfa tandem Capitur: Omnia ha&enug Quae node potuit, notajam primum eft fibi ; Accede, LeftoTy difee quis denaum fas ; Tranquilinam Jccoris agnofcas tin Qitipropius hseret nil cibf, & nil tam procul. Non hie Scholarum frivob, aut cadi Loga, Quales per annos forte plus feptcm Legit, lie folic pleno prodcar, RtX£ Artifex ; Vanafq; merccs futrii lingua crcpet 3 S«d fan&a Rerum pondcra, & fenfus graves; Qjiale, pararidecuit, ipfa cum fuic Fingenda Ratio, &,vindicifuo adftitlt ; Panduntur omnes Machinae gyri tuae ; Animaeq; vertes, Trochleas, cwiei KoU- y Qua concitetur Arte, quo {ufflaminc Siftaturillarurfus&conftetfibi . Nee, fi Fcneftram Peftori humano fuam Aptafir ptaffitipfe Montusy infpiccrct Magis. \c ccrno Levia Affe&uHm\M%U, i ^rajcilcfq^ fcnfusLineas; video quibus lebantur alls blanduli Cupidines 5 , ;hnbufq; ftimulis urgtant h* graves. Tic Dolores, & voluptates fuos ♦rodunc recefTus ; ipfc ncc timor Iatct ; lai Noric artes quifquis in foro vclit ^nimorum habenas fl;cYere,& populos Cu^it Iptis Ligatos nexibus )ung\ fibi. lie Archimedes publicus figac pedem, iqaando rcgna michinis Politicis urgcre fatagit, & feras gentes cict, ■nifq, motum fedibua Mundnm quatit; dc\U domabit cunfta^qui menti imperat 5 lonfulcor audax, & Tromethti potens ,icinoris Animc ! qnis tibi dedit Deus xc intacri faeculis longe abdita 5 K-ulofq; luce tinxit ambrofia Tuos ^u mentis omnis., at Tuac Nulla eft capax ; [aclaude(olusfruerc : Divinum eft opus* inimamcrearc ; Proximum huic, ©Hendcre. T. H. h.to.Coll.lx.Oxon. to* 1 t*Sw «©» tWfsr tflfir ttff» tflft? t&p } ^If7 ' xKif9 n&a tfJte *4dli\e the Apocalypa they are conceal d. • )*b* Orthodox all Parodox, or all 3 cover' d, which men ft ill a wonder Callj to Migna Cryrta of allSciences, ; d be that names it cannot call it lefs, ' Backhand Title inqht have well ogre ed' y men have qiteftknd if into their Creed 'y ff/iidd have put your Article^ but How ? name of holy mm dare difallow. hen fo much learning doth in one exlft I/don, not Herme?,/^// be Trifmegifr. Id if the Right Reverend of Levies Tribe Hallow it> I cannot but fubferibe My (elf your Friend and Servant Tho. Fyge. To r£e wo/£ Excellent Thi lofopher and Lawyer Mr. John Heydon, upen the Holy ' j Guide. HAyl you (admired Heydori) whofe great pat Shine above envy , and the common ^W, You kin to Angels^ and Superiour Lights, ( A Iparkv) the firtt fire ) whofc Edg/e flights Trade not with Earthy and grofinefs, but do pal To chc pure Heavns^U make your God your gla ;! In whom you fee all forms, and fo do give Thefe rare difcovcries, how things move and liiji Proceed to make your great defign eomplcat, And let not this rude world our h pes defes t. Oh let me but by this the dawning light Which ftreams upon me through your three pi I P.ifs to the Ea/r of truth, *cill 1 may fee ( nigt Mans fir ft {aire ftale, when (age Simplicity he Dove and Serpent, Innocent and wife )weRin bis fcre/f, and he in Paradife ; I 'here from the Tree of knowledge his beft boughs, 'le pluck a Garland for this Authors brows, Vhich to fucccccding times Fame (hall bequeath, \ Vith this moft juft Applaufe, Great He)dom (wreath; f- IF. n :ii ?& -& && rtrz ttifr etifi* tRTfsr ttffr s\!/s tWf? tst A Chymical Dictionary OR, An Explanation of the hard words and termes of Arc which areufed in lbs Holy Gmck. ACquifttlo, Antiffio, Aibm, are figures < Geomancy, Y or Arks, a figure J jiftrmr acorns , -unftio. and Career figures oiGccmancy. i Circulation, is when any liquor is 10 jjjlpcfd in digeftion, that it fhail rife up M d fall down, and rife up and fall down, | JL c d fo do continually, and thereby become : i/uedigtfted and mature, for which ufe gjTT the ffloft part we ufe a Pelican. , q Clarification , is the feparating of the jigJIcicces from any decoction or juice ; h * and r AChymical Dictionary. and it is done three wayes, by the white c an Egge, by digeftion, by filtration. Cure all, is Aurum Totalile. Coagulation, is the reducing of any liqui thing to a thicker fubftance by cvaporatin the humidity. Cohobation, Is the frequent abftr a&ion < any liquor poured oft-times on the fco from whence it was diftilled, by diftillat on. Cancer and Capricorn, figncs in Aftr wancy. Congelation, is when any liquor being d co&ed to the height, is afterward by fc ling into any cold place turned into cranfparent fubftance like unto Ice. Corrojlonjs theCaleining of bodies by co rolive things. Cure the great is the Pantarva. D. Vecantation, is tt c pouring off any I Cjuor which hath a fctling, by inclinatio Deliquium, the dlffoluing of a hard bo into a liquor, as fait, or the powder any calcined matter, &c. in a moift, co place. Vejcenfion, is when the eff utial jui. djflblvcd from the matter to be diftilli doth ccfccnd, or fall downward. Dejpumation, is the taking off the frci th. A Chyvtical Di&ionary. that Boats on the top with a fpoon or fca- :hcr, or by percolation. Distillation, is the extracting of the hu» pid partlof things by vertucof hcac, being i nft rcfolved into a vaponr, and then con- fenfed again by cold. Thus it is generally aken; but how more particularly, I (hall iftcrward (hew. Vigejlion, is a conco&ing, or maturation f crude thiogt by an eahcand gentle heat. Vijfolntion. is the turning of bodies into liquor by ihc addition of forhc humidity. Decoration, or V deification , is either lie waftiing off the falc from any matter lat was calcined therewith, with warm Mter, in which the fait is ditfolvtd, and ie matter dulcified : or it is fweetning of u'ngs with fugar, or honey* or fyrup. E Elevation, is the riling of any matter in a[ ; unncr of fume, or vapour, by vertuc af (j t( Evaporation , or Exhalation, is the ?a- | )C puringawayof any moifture. Exaltation, U when any matter doth by [ •jCgcfrion attain to a greater purity. lifi Expreffton, is the extracting of any li~ cior oy thehahd, or by a prcfle. , Extraction, is the drawing forth of am iVcncc from a corporeal matter by fome ha v fit A Chymical Diffionaey, fie liquor, asfpirk of wine 5 the feces re? main in thebottome. F. fcermentation,!* when any thing is refoN ved intoitfclf, and is rarifud, and ripe- ned; whether it be done by any ferment added to it, or by digeftion only. Fox\un(LMd)QX a figure of Geomancy, Filtration^ is the reparation of any liquid matter from its feces by making it run through a brown paper made like a tunnel, or a little bag of woollen cloth,or through ffcreds. Fixation, U the making of any volatile* fpiritual body endure the fire, and not flye away, whether it be done by often reitera- ted diftillations, or fublimations, or by theadding of fome fixing thing to it. Foriuna Minor a Figure ofGeontancy. Fuwigatioftyis the calcining of bodies bj the fume of (harp fpirits, whether vegeta- ble or mineral, the bodies being hid ovei the mouth of the vcflel wherein the fiiarj f pirns are. Gemini , a Figurt otGeomancy. H. HuweQathn, or Irrigation's a fprinklinj of moifturc upon any thing. •*• Imbibition^ is when any dry body drink A Chymicd Dictionary. in any moifturc that is put upon n. Jupiter 5 a planet of Aftromawy Impregnation, is when any dry body hath drank in fo much moifture that it will ad* J mic of no more. Incorpr a\ion, is a mixtion of a dry and moiftbody together, fo as to make an unb form mafle of them. j Injufton, is the putting of any hard matter l[ fcnjto liquor, for thevcrtue thereof to bz 1/11 (Extracted. Inflation, is the digefting of things in the Sun. L. Levigation,'l$ the reducing of any hard matter into a meft fine powder. Lxtitia, otGeomancy. Leo and Libra figures of Aftromancy. Liquation, is a melting or making any thing fluid. Luxation* is either the flopping of ths orifices of veficls, that no vapourjpaffe our 3 or the coating of any veflfcll to prefcrve ic from breaking in the fire. M. H Mars, Mtrcury, and the Moon, Planets oi Aftromancy. Maceration, is the fame as Digeftion. Maturation, is the exalting of a fubfhnc© b 3 tfe*t A Chymical DiSionary. that is immature and crude, to be ripened and conco&ed. Mevftrum, is any liquor that ferves for the extracting the tffmce of any thing. P. Frecipitathn, is when bodies corroded by corrofive fpirhs, either by the evaporat* ing of thefpirits remain in ihc bottome, or by pouring fomething upon the fpiritf, a* oil of Tartar , or a good quantity of water, do fatl to the bottom. Puer>Puella & Pofulus, figures ofGeoniancy. Fifces a figure in Afttomancy. Purification, is a reparation of any Li- quor from its feces, whether it be done by clarification, filtration, or digeftton. Putrefaftion, is the resolution of a mixt body into it fclf , by a natural gentle heat. a, vinte(fence 3 is an abfolute, pure anc well digtfted medicine, drawn from an] (ubftance> either animal, vegetable or ml neral. R. Rubefy a figure of Geomancy. Rettification\ is either the drawing of th ftegmfrom the fpirits,or of the Cpirirs fror the flegm, or the exaltation of any Liquo by a reiterated diftillationr ; Rtvir A Cbjmical DiHionary. Reverberation, is the reducing of bodies :nto a Calx, by a reflecting flame. Saturne, Sol, Scorfio, and Sagittary, Planets and fignes in Apomancy* oc: ; Solution, is a diffblving or attenuating « of bodies. Stratification, is a ftrewing of corroding if! powdir on platesofraetaJlby courfe. tji i Sublimation, U an elevating, or railing of the matter to the upper pare of the vcflcll q by way of a fubtle powder. Subtiliatioi, is the turning of a body into fl a Liquor, or into a fine powder. xl T. . i, Taurus, a figures ot Aflromancy . m Tranfimutatron, is the changing oft thing (Q iin fubftancc, colour, and quality. V. Venus, Virgo, figures of Afkromahcy. I Volatile, is that which fly eth the fire. a Rw/fi to be confidered in Rofic Crucian Medicines. i. 1 jLfT Ake choice of a fit place in your houfe ■■ for the furnace, fo that ic may neither I ' hinder any thing, nor be in danger of the faling of any thing into it thatfhal lye over U; A Ckymical Di&ionary. ic: for a forcing Furnace, it will be beft to fetitin achimny, becauie aftrongheat is ufedtoit, and many timw there arc ufed brands which wili imoik, and the fie b:- ing great the danger thereof may be pre- vented, and of things of a maligocandve* ncnate quality being diftillcd in fuch a Fur- nace, the fume or vapour, if the glafs fhould break nuy be carryed up \wo the chimney which othervufe will flye about the room eo thy prejudice. 2- In all kinds of Diftillation the veffels *are not to be filled too full; for if you diltill Liquors,they will run ever; if other folider things, the enc part: will be burnt before the other pare be at all worked upon; but fill the fourrh part of copper vcflels ; and in rectifying of fpirics fill the veflll half iuil. Let thofe things which are flatulent, as \vax,rofin, and fuch like, as alfo thofc things which do eanly boil up, as honey, be put in a ltffer quantity, and be diftilled ia greater vefftls, with the addition of Glt 3 (and, or fuch like. 4- There be fome things which rcqnire * ftrong A Chymicd DiBioniry< ic ilrong fire, ycc you muft have a care that the fire be not too vebernert for fear their nature fhould be dtftroyed. 5- You muft have a care that the lute with which veffris are cloftd, do not give vent aud alter the nature of the Liquor, cfpeci- ally when a ftro g fir« is to be ufed. 6. Acid Liquors have this peculiar proper- ty, that the waktr part goes forth fi»ft; aruj theftronger laft, but in fermented and Liquors the fpiric goeth ruA, then the sgme. 7. If the Liquor retain a certain Empyreu- ;na, or (match of the fire, thou (halt help ic L-y putting it into a glafs clofe ftopt, and (o cxpofing it to the heat[of the Sun, and now and then opening the glafs that the fiery imprtflion may exhale, or clfe let the glafa rand in a cold moift place. 8. When you put water into a Teething Bal- !* neum, wherein there are glaffes, let it be L hot, or elie thou wilt endanger the break- ing of the glafie*. 9. When thou takeft an earthen or glafs vcfM A Chymical DiBionary. vefTelfrora the fire, expofc it not to the cold air too fuddmly for fear it (hould break. IO. If thou wouldft have a Balneum as hot as aCheSj put fand or fawduft into it, that the heat of the water may be therewith kept in, and made more intenfe. II. |f you would make a heat with horfe- dung, the manner is this; viz. make a hole in the ground,thcn lay one coarfc of horfe- dung a foot thick, then a coarfe of un- fiiked lime half a foot thick, then another of dung, as before then fct in your veffcl, and lay round it lime and horfe-dung mixt together; prefs it down very hard 5 you muftfprinklc it every other day with w*- tcr, and then it csaftth to be hot, then take it out and put in more. 12. Note that alwaycsfandorafhes muft bi well fifced ; for otherwise a coal or ftont therein may break your glafs. 13. The time for putrefaction of things i various; for if the thing to be putrefied b vegetables aud green, lefstimeis required |f dry, a longer * if Minerals, the iongeft all A Chymical Dictionary. 1. Thus much note , that things ate >oncr putrincd in clouJy weather thca i fair. 14. If thou wouldft keep vegetables frefh od green all ihe year, gather them in a ry day, and put them into an earthen tfftl, which you mud ftopclofe, and fttin cold place: and they will, as faith Glau- I 1 rus, keep frefh a whole year. Do not f xpeft to extraft the cflence of j ny vegetable unlefs by making ufc of ihe !: : tecs left afcer diftillation : for if you take II We feccfj ai for example of a netele, and " nake a deco&ion thereof, and ftrain it and 5 ct it in the froft, it will be congealed and 1 n it will appcara thoufand leaves of net- ^ l 'les with their prickles, which when the de. :o&ion is again refolved by heat, vanlili iway, which (hews that the effence of the &> Vegetable* lies in the fait thereof. 1 6. Tn all your operations, diligently ofc~ fcrve the procefles which you read, and va- ;! rynota tittle from them* for fomcumes iflfl a fmall miftake or ne^Jeft fpoilsthe whole lift operation , and fruf^rates your expecta- tion. *£. Try A Chymical Y>i8ionary. l 7\ Try no tat f\:ft experiments of great coft, or greai difficulty; for it will be a grea- difcouragement to thce 3 and thou wilt bi very apt to miftakc. 18. If any would enter upon the prafriceo Chymiftrie, let him apply himfclf to fora< expert Artift for to be inftrufted in tbc ma mial operation of things*, for by this mean* he will learn more in two moneths, thei he can by his practice and ftudy in fcvei years, as alfo avoid much pains and cofl and redeem mu.h time which elfe of neaffi tyhewilllofe, ' 9 * Enter not upon any operation, unlefs it b confident with the pcflibility of natun which therefore thou muft endeavour a much as poflibly may be : to under ftan J wcli 20. Do not interpret all things thou reade according to the litteral fenfe-, for Pnilofc phcrs when they wrote any thing too ex cellcnt for the vulgar to know, expreiTed i enigmatically* that the ions of Art onl might underftand it. Inall thy operations propofc a goo; en A Chymical ViBionary. nd to thy felf, as not to u(e any excellent xperiment that thou (halt difcover, to any 11 end, but for the publick good. 22. llndcrftand well whether you (hall prof- >ID or not ; before you begin any thing 3ray to God, and you will find all you i icfircin the Second book made plain unto fo you- n tli to ■'- lit |J Gentlemen rfid! t?!r? ttffd ttifr ««f? «&? tato tSJto ttfr* tHWr ttfr. m vT*T**> IrT^m-: **T^*\ ffc^^ir* /iTTr, fc/ Gentlemen;, I {half defire you to favour the Erro; of the preis. I have prefixed as many as I efpied to th Book- bat it fortunates that an Author is apter ratta to read it as it mould be , then really as it comes fror the Compoficor and Corrector. 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Attumeys in the Court of Kings Bench: p:^:l: 1 3:f:proH - cure, r: prove: L. ; />:*:In the Advertifement, p:$yJ;io: /: John, 4:4 : rrjohjij 8:;:Sc::44i LlB.l. I Chap. I. )f(jod^Art and Stature. OfGod y of Man, of Creatures : 2. A divine pattern: z. Frailty : 4. HappineJJe wkat > 5. J [fir it that workelh all things: 6. Di- vine lights: 7. Plato's Crown : S.lbe grounds ef Knowledge : 9. Opinio Jts : 10. Images of Heaven : 1 1 . Si#g/ nay, fee the force of truth; he yieldeth again according to the heavenly Rafter, that tofore-ftall the place from the worfer fort, good men ought to take office upon them, and to manage affaires of 5tate : yea further, if they refufe (which if they be wife, they witty queth Zeno) that thsy may rightly he compel- led-, then, if this wile man hath vertuein pofleffion, as no doubt he hath, he muft as we fee by his own confeflion, ufe it ; and the famereafon is of God himfelf in this great City of the World ; but Tlato by name, thinks thofe two fo nearly allied and knit together,as he dare openly deny happinefs to that Common- wealth where they be diflinked and ftand afunder. 1 o. Then we fee, that in the judgement ofthefetwo great Thilefophers and Fhyfiti- am, where they be beftadvifed, and in deed and truth, the divine pattern of happi- nefs, which we ought toftrive unto, is no more, nor no lefsthen that worthy cou- ple of wifdome and venue knit together in that bond of fellowfhip, which may ne- ver be parted afunder. That ■ IO The Holy Guide. LlB.u ThatSalomon defired, when God gave him his choice, and bad him ask what he would have, and he would give it him, as you may read i Kings c.i. Hefaid, Ion/ give thy fervant an understanding hearty that he may judge between good and bad; and the fpeech pleafed the Lord, that Salomon had asked this thing? and God f aid unto him 9 Be- canfe thou baft asked this thing, and haft mt asked long life, neither haft askgd riches for thy felf, nor the life of thine enemies, but haft ask- ed for thy felf under ft anding to difcerne judge- ment ; behold, 1 have done according unto thy word, ho I have given thee a wife under {land- ing heart, fo that there was none like thee be- fore thee, neither after thee (};all any arifo like unto thee. And alfo 1 have given thee that which thou hzft not asked, riches and honour ; andfo will God doe to all thofe that mindwif- dome and vertue. In the firft place, with an intent to do good to others. On the con- trary, fad experience hath witnefledeven in our daye?, that many, whofe whole aim was to be rich in this world, have been deprivedof all, and forced to feeke their bread in a ftrange land ; fo may o- thersdo yet for ought I know, if they be not all the wifen they that fwallow down riches; and not by right, (hall vomit them up again; the Lord (hall caft them out of theirbdlies,y^20.i$. ii. But you may fay, we have reared our Li B.I. The Holy Guide. II our Happinefs,long Life and Health aloft, and made it a fair and goodly work ; but more lit for the dwelling of thofe clean and tingle minds (or fpirits) above, which they call Meffengers (or Angels) therefore is man fo buried here below in thefe earthly bodies , as we are fcarce able to look up unco it:and therefore Pythagoras m his book, with good advice, often recei- veth in enough of bodily and outward goods, to help the matter, (thought it not to beany other caufe of joy, than thein- ftrument is of Mufick : ) and fo Plat$, we fee, nameth his fervants and helpers. 12. Indeed I grant, that this full and high pitch of happinefs, &c. (I mean that meafure above fet ) is free and eafte to free and lively fpirits j bufr to us impoffible, without outward meanes and helps, which , neverthelefs , fhall not be counted as any part of the frame of Health, needfull to make up the whole, bur, as it were, loofc and hang-by fteps and ftaires leading up to it. 13, Then, if thefe be fo needfull a9 they be, it were of much need to lay them down, and keep juft account, which thofe Tbyfitiam do not, left if there be two for one^HappineJfe^c mould halt:if again, too many, the idle parts might, in fine, infeft and marrethe reft > as we may fear of 1 2 the Holy Guide. LiB.i. of Flato his firfi three Delights , although they be not hurtfull of themfelves .• Without more words, the juft ftimmeis thus : To obtaine fo much HappinefTe, &c. as our Nature is able to take and hold, the body had need befirft willing and obedient, and then ftore of out- ward needfull things to be at hand and ready* thefe every man knowethj but for the body, that is obedient, when it is long lived, health full , young , clear e, and temperate $ when all thefe helps flock to- gether, we may be happy, if we will* if any want, we (hall doc what we can, as you (hall hear hereafter. Then let us marfhall thefe things at laft in order , by the Holy Guide> who compare Happinefstoa Family^ & makes that loving couple Wtfdome and Vertue y as Maw and Wife , and Heads of the HouQiold, the five proper eyes of the body like Children, and Riches as Ser- vants. Thefe againe, if the chief of the houfe will fuffer them to marry, will be- get other two bond-children, to beautitie the fame houfe. Honour and flea pure ; but J the wife and good Houfholder will in no wife fuffer it,ieft his houfe mould be trou- bled with more then may be ruled; and v although true and right Honour and Pleafure will perforce follow, yec he fliall not Lib.!, the Holy Guide. 1 3 not regard them 3 nor be minded towards them 5 as thofe grave men were towards Helen 3 and often ufe their faying , al- though theybefuch kindeones, yet let them go: and us follow our way to health and happinefle, &c. See The Harmony of the World, &c. '• All Objections caft againft the Rofie Crucian Medicines Anfwered 9 and the truth made manifeft. CHAP. II. 1 . The way to Wifdome ', 2. Hermes medicine*-, 5 . Rules, 4. pofftbilities and effeUs - 5 fault- lejfe (ludies-, 6. approved reafons; j.Opinionsi 8. Tbeftop-/kip', 9. Secret truths. 10. Won* drous mrks $ 11. Wifemens 12. Alchi- myb 13. Ofthefccret bl ail and motion of Cod-, 14. Of Natures faulty 15. Divine truths-, iC. Mansminde; ij. Of the life of God 3 18. Raging Counfell ; 19. S tingle fie X rones; 20 . Vifiention-, the Emper ours folly. Oh that we knew that health and hap* pinefle 5 wemay when we will, go in- to the way where and how all men may be blefled : wherein I am quite bereaved of all helps from the Grecians > as men e- ver 14. The Holy Guide. ver apt to fpeak & think well, rather then to do &. perform any thing (though con- ftancy & agreement,in their fay ings would have left blefiednejfe as well as other good things in the power and reach of all men and I mud fly for aide into Mgy^t , a peo- ple fo far palling all other Nations, as it is better and nearer to God, to work and to do great wonderous things than to behold and look upon them. 2. For it is delivered toAncient and true Record that one Hermes aKing and Lawgi- ver of that Country , a man of a rare and divine gift in knowledg above all that ever were, found out Medicines able to bring all men to health & long life^c.and left them behinde him in writing tohis people; & that they were after him,a long time by thewjfer fort, clofely wrought and ufed, umill atlaft, they crept abroad and ftole into Arabia, when (lie flourifhed in Armes and Learning, and there got the name which it now commonly keepeth of Filius Solis deleftis, Amicus Vitt, Pantarva, Ignis ViU> Stella Vita, Radix Vita, Aqua So- Iis y Aqua Luna, Vehcia vita, Panacea, Succus Vita, Medulla vita, Adjutrix Vita, Salus vita, Sanguis vita, Aurum Potabile ; and indeed all thefe medicines are made of prepared gold,*H.Now from thence in the fame fe- cret and difguifed manner (Tor that is the wont of them, as becomes fo deep fecretsj they LiB.T. The Holy Guide 1 5 they have traveled and fpread themfelves overall Nations; now and then opening and difcovering themfelves to a few of the better and wiier company. 3. Then this is the meanes to obtaine blcflednefs, which I mean to take , and withall to prove it no pleafant dream and happy tale, if it were true as the common proverb goeth of it ; but as it is a Natural, Heroical, and almoft a Divine deed, fcarce to be reached or matched with any words, fo I vow them a true and certain ftory, things often done, and a- gain to be done as often , I am unfits I grant, and unable to bear fogreat a bur- then, but that the defirel have both to defend the Truth from Slander, and to do good to them that love it, makes it light and eafie : and again, the hope up- holds me, that if I chance to {tumble or faint at any time, thefe will as gently and willingly lend their hand to ftay me, or at leaft bear with the fall or misfor- tune. Then for the common or wilder fort, which either for lack of good Nature, or want of good Manners, ufe to wrangle a- bout words, or twitch at things, I care not j and becanfe I know them not, I pafs them as unknown men ; for neither was Henulcs able, as they fay, to match with many- 1 6 ike Holy Guide. LiB.i, many-headed Hydra y nor yet with the a#kg and crooked Crab, 4. Then to turn my fpeech, which way were it beft to fet forwards > not rightjandftraight to the matter ! No ; be- caufe there is fuch crying out againft the poflibility of the good work which our Medicine promifes; and that Awke for judgement of the matter hath been the chief caufe which hath hitherto buried this Divine Art from the fight of good and learned men; I take it the beft way of delivery, before I come to the point it felf,to fetch about a little, & then to (hew the poflibility ofthofe effe£b,and the way to work them by other or weaker meanes, as well as by Hermes Medicines. For al- though it be notfo natural, in marching forward to move the Iejft and weak part* yet I keep it right atificially, and then it mall agree with that goood order of Art : Firft of all to put by a few of the light things laid againft this bleffed Science y becaufe, albeit, they be gathered but by guefs,be(idesall grounds of certaintyjyet they have fo wholly poflefled the common people, yea, and fome of the better and wifer fort likewife, that without any further fearch or hearing of the matter* they have ftraight-way caft it off for falle, and condemned its for when as one's Lib. i . The Holy Guide. I 7 cnce deep hath taken the fort of the bo* dy, the fenfes yield, and can do nothing j fo if wrong belief get once pofTeffion of the foul, reafon is laid to reft, and cannot move again, before that mift be loofened, put to flight and fcattered. 5. Firft, fay they, fith there befeen in all places and times, fo many hundreds with great paines, heed and cunning, to ftudy this Art, and put the Receipts in practice : now if they were true and faultlefs, as others are, fome mould ap- peare to hit the mark, and to gather the fruits of their iravel, and to live as they do, of all men moft miferabie: orat leaff, becaufe it is fo ancient an Art, it would have been recorded in fome publick cr private writing, befides their own, which be it bound with never fo deep oaths (as it is) yet it is unfufficient proof and wit- nefs in their own cafe. 6.Thefebe the moft capable reafdns, and beft approved among the people., wherewith they ufeto batter this exchan- ging fequence : but mark how light and weak they be, and eafie to be wiped away; for how could the a&s and deeds of thefe R.C. Philosophers & Phyfitians come into the writings and Records of men (to be- gin there with them) whofe fame, nay, whofe company they have everihunned > £ and /* 18 The Holy Guide. Ll B. i . and when their own Records, if they chance to light of any thing that was not town abroad, and publiftied to the world, as is the ufe of worldlings; but left like moft precious Jewels unto fome freindof fccret truft,which was counted as a Son a- dopced , upon condition to keep itftill within the houfe and ftock of Hermesfiom the eyes and hands of the world and (hangers, running evermore, like the wife Starres, a contrary race unto the world, that no mervaile, though they be both,iu like fort croffed by the world, and mif- called wanderers for Planets, J when in- deed and truth they goe better. Now when they deem credit to be denied to the mens report & witnefs, it is a fign that either their own report&witnefs is of light and little weight, whereby they judge of others ; or elfe, that their thoughts are vain and phantaftical, puffed up, I mean with that new kind of felf-love and over- weening wifdome, to (et upthemfelves, and pull down Authorities > of which fort ic falls out moft commonly inpeo« pie, that while they ftrive to avoid the lake of fuperfHtion, they run headlong unawares down the river of impiety, for if fuch a wide breach and entry may be differed to be made into the credit and authority of the Writers, which are the life of Antiquity and light of Memory, great LlB.l. the Holy Guide. 19 great darkneffe and confufion will foone come in and over-caft the world \ yea,and fo far forth at length,as nought fhall be be- lieved & judged true that is not feen; that even they which dwellin the main land, (hall not grant a fea 5 a thing not onely fond and childifh among men, but alfo (ill be to me, if I fpeak not as i think) wicked and godlefs amongft us Chrifti- ans, whofe whole Religion, asS. Auguftine faith, ftands upon that ground. 7.Wherefore,if we muft needs believeRe- cords, yea, though they be fpmetimes lewd men, foolifh and unlearned, as if they were as whole and harmlefs asXe«o- crates; but efpecially, although they had great cau fe to lie, and to fpeak more or lefs then the truth ; who can in common reafon refufc the folemn oaths of fo goodj wife and learned men > for he is good for the love of Vertue it felf ; he that is wife, to avoid the fhame of lying, will fpeak the truth:What (hall I fay of EugemusiheG- didaftus^that duril in times part $wnno other iwwtf,wnofe whole care and practice, drift & ftudies, now is nothing eife but to finde and fet down the truth? but all is well $c clear of all fufpition, if it may, bethought thofe oaths and proteftations to have fprung from himfelf, and others experi- enced in thefe undeniable truths, of more good will and defire to perfwadc the lo- B* vert 2 O The Holy Guide. Li B . ! . vers of Wifdome and Vertue , than wrought out byfeare or flattery, which may ealily be judged in fuch men,as Were all either then falfe Vrotefton that cared not, or Ki»g$ that needed not, as it is clear in all their eyes that are converfant in thefe kindes of (Indies Wherefore fuch men as are fo bold with our ground of reafon to deny, atui deny ftill all that comes, are, in my opinion, greatly to be looked un- to } far although they, like Xerxes, pull not down Religion with hands openly,yet they are of another fort as dangerous, that undermine itclofely with wrong o- p in tons. If our men avoid fuch plain un- truths, as might be reproved by commwi fenfe and daily experience, as when A- nexagoras faid Snow was black, andXftfo- phanes the Moon is inhabited, and full of hills atid cities ; and in cities of old, with tome of late among the Stars [Sir Chr: JHeydon Baron & N&r. Job.Heydon^znd Mr. John Gadburyy\ but I fpeak not againft A- rtrologers, but againft fuch flattering ly- arsthat have gained their eftates amongft [illy foolifh women, &c ignorant people, H that hold, that the earth, the onely movable thing in the world, (lands ftill, and fuch like ugly mimapeu lies, wherewith Greece over-ifwarmed ; then you had reafon to ufe them with ill words and thoughts as you L 1 B. I . The Holy Guide. you doc : Now, although I was partly perfwaded to be of the fame opinion with thofe that hold the earths immobility : but being convinced jl relinquifti my for- mer opinions for they maintain,that by a Heavenly Medicine they have great and woiiderfull changes, turned all metals into Gold, Folly into Wifdome, Vice in- to Vertue, WeaknefTe into lcng Life, all Difeafes into found Health, and Age into LuftinelTe and Youth againe \ How can you difprove them ? when did you fee the contrary ? you finely know the nature of the deeds and effects j for they require great knowledge ; but the doing caufe workman,that you diflike ls^their Medicines you never faw,nor can imagine what it is, much lefs conceive the reafon,jiwigth & na- ture of it ; nay you fee nothing,but grope and blunder in the dark,like blind-fold- ed men at all things ; elfe how could thefe exchanges have efcaped,8c been hid from you, in a world fofull of all kindes of changes > I mean, you fee great and ad- mirable things f albeit you do not fo take them, becaufe you fee them often ) but you doe not truly fee them, that is, you perceive not the nature, caufe and reafon of them, and that makes you fo childifh to believe nought unfeen, and count all things wondrous which are not common B 3 among 22 The Holy Guide. LlB.i. among you $ much like that harmlefle and fiDy kind of people, of late difcover- ed, which made miracles and wonders of many matters, that in other countreys are ordinary and common, in fo much as (to take one for all) they could not con- ceive how two men afunder could by let- ter certifie one another, unlefs a fpirit were wrapt up in the paper to make re- port, and tell the news 5 but if you and they could once,;by this Guide & Art, cut into the depth and nature of the great and marvellous works of kind and skill, which are common and daily among you; then, and not till then, you would be ready and eafie by comparifon to receive almoft any thing unfeen, and brought by report unto you. Let me awake your wits a little; you fee daily, but not tho- rowly, how the Moon by her Sympathy with the fpirit of the water drawes the O- eean after her, makes the ebbs and flow- ings thereof: it is likewife commonly knowne, that the Load-jione in the roof e ef Mahomet his Church y dr aw s up his iron Tomb from the ground^ and holds it hanging in the middle way ; like as the miners in Germa- ny > fonnd their tooles which they had left in fuch a Vault, hanging in the morning ,• which was accounted fora miracle,before fuch time as the caufe, by the ski!full,was LiB-l. The Holy Guide. 2 } feen and declared unto them. What (hould I fay more of this Scene > it is not unknewne that there are whole rocks thereof m1ndia 9 attheCaftleof the Ada^ WtfKf,erefted by J uLCtf. drawing (hips chat pafs by loaden with iron unto them:& yet we fee that this mighty Stone, in prefence of the Diamond, the King of Stones, is put out of office, and can do nothing. 8. To come abroad, it hath been often feen at Sea, that the little Stay-fifh clea- ving to the fore-fhip, hath ftopt her full courfe. 9. 1 mould now paffe over to that other fide of skill and craft, and call to minde many great and wondrous workes there done and performed 5 the curious work of that Italian King , which held a Clocks be fides a DiaU within *>$ thefe three com- mon feats found out of late, patting all in- ventions of Antiquity, the Gun, Card, and Vrintings and many other dainty Devices of mans wit and cunning ; if this fliort and narrow fpeech appointed would fuf- fer any fuch out- ridings, let thefe few ferve to awake you,and call your wits to- gether: you fee thefe things 1 fay, and are never moved 5 but if you had never feene them, but heard the {lories only re- ported,what would yon have thought and laid ? and becaufe no man judgeth fo B 4. well 3 ^ the Holy Gride. L 1 B. t . well of himfelf as of another > fuppofe a plain and hai mlefle people, fuch as thofe Indians were, had from the beginning dwelt in aCave under ground,let it be the Center if you will, and at the laft onemau. more wife then the reft , had by Health crept out into the light : And by long travel & traffick with our people,had feen and learned the courfe of nature of things which I have rchearfed unto you, and then returning home, had fuddeniy ftai t up and begun to account the won- ders which he had Ceen and learned : firfr, that he had found the earth hanging in middle of the aire, and in like fort a bright and goodly cover compaflmg afar offthe fame ; this cover, befet and fprink- led with infinite lights and candles, and among the reft, one (to be (hort ) of a foot in bignefs to his light, without all touch- ing, or other means or inftrumentsto be perceived, to hold and pull huge heaps of water after her,as fhepafled up and down continually, would they notftiout and lift up their hands, and begin to fufpeft the man of infection with ftrange and gravelling manners? jo. But admit, when the noife were done, and all hufht, he went forward $l toid them of fuch a Church andVault with other things , as well, and more firange. LiB. I. The Hotly Guide. 15 nrange [then the earth (Tor that can- not be othcrwife^ unlefs heavy things flew up againil Nature) hanged in the aire alone, and of fuch hills, that as the Sunne waters drawes fhips out of their coui»fes, without any ftrength or meanes viiible ; furthermore, if he laid abroad the wonderfull might of a little fi(h, like halfa foot long, able to (lay the maine courfe of a (hip under faile : doe you not think w^ith what four contenances and re- viling words, and reproaches, they would bait and drive him out of their company? but if the good and painfull man burning with dcfire to leform the eft-ate of this rude and deformed countrey, would not be flayed fo, but fpying a calmer time, durft come in prefeuce, and ftep forth before them again, and fay, that by his travel he had made fuch a ring as I fpeak cf ; fuch warlike Engines as ftiould tail as fearfull as thunder, and ashurtfull as a canon fired at a fort , a niile offplanted; with a kind off writing,whereby four men might record as much in the fame time as four thoufand of the common Clerks 5 fuch a Card, wherewith aCou.ntrey-man that never faw the Sea, mall fit in the bottom of a Ship, and direft the courfe thereof throughout the world without miffing 5 Is it not like chey would appre- hend 2 6 1 he Holy Guide* LiB.i, hcnd him for a coufener , and adjudge him to pimiflititeut? then put the cafe you ftood by and Caw the matter, I ap- pealeto yoiar own experience, would you not think the Traveller worth pity and praife , and the People of reforma- tion ? ii. Well then, let" us returne to our purpofe y there is a Nation of wife men dwelling in a foyle as much more bleiTed (then yoursji as yours is then theirs of the Defarts, that is, as they bide under ground, and you upon the face of the roof: fo thefe men inhabite the edge and the skirt of Heaven •, they daily fee and work many wondrous things, which you never faw nor made, becaufe you never mounted fo high to come among them 5 if any one chance toflieaway from you to thofe heavenly places,&:after like expe- rience, to return & make the like reports, you give him the like rewards you give : if compare the reft J I fay no more ; but if God would give you leave and power to afcend to thofe high places, I meane to thefe heavenly thoughts and ftudies, you might quickly,by view of deep caufe?,and divine fee rets and comparifon of one to another, not onely believe the bleiTed Art, but alfo learn and perform the fame, and cure all the difeafed. 1 2. But LlB.l. 7 he Holy Guide. 27 i2. But they will net be rid fo, but follow as faft again another way : that whereas fo many have been, and are dai- ly Cecil to wear away their lives mAlcbimy y & to find nothing that good is,but contra- ry for the moft part, to wit, untimely and unordinary death, iicknefs and age for long life, health and youth, and alwayes fmoak for golden Medicines, and folly for wifdome, and very near as often, bad and fad conditions for good and honeft natures; ((or by boyling themfelves long in fuch deceitful 1 fluff, as though they were burnt to the pots bottom, they carry moft commonly, forever after, an nnfavoury fmack thereof ; ) it is a plaine fign the trade is vain, falfe and deceitful; this is the third charge they give unto us; let us fee how tobeare and withftand it. The moft wife and great Thilofophers , and Rofie Crucian Thyfitians, albeit they know God made mankinde, for the hap- py life abovefaid, and that it was at firft enjoyed, or clfe it had been made in vain, and that by corruption of ill cuftome (by his fecret appointment^ our kinde is grown out of kind, and therefore maybe reftored, becaufe it is a mifleading, and no intent of Nature ; (which forecafting gave them occafion to feek the remedy J yet they thought it unlawfull to teach thefe 28 The Holy Guide. L ib.i. thefe Medicines , fet ftraight againft the will of God, that all mould be refto^F red ; for that he feemed on purpofe to have fown good and bad, and great ftore of both together, in fuch fort as we fee them,left if all were alike, and in one ftate of happinefs, the great variety of bull- " nefs and ftirring, and fo' the Society and g Common- wealth among men fhould be clean taken away : like as the firft foure ftriving feedes (whereof all things are made and fprung) were all alike, and one friend to another, allfhould beftill and quiet, without fucceflion, change and va- riety in the world, and fo there mould be no world} for God, when he caft his mind upon the building of the world, he went to make a beautiful and goodly work, meet for the Power, Wifdome and Pleafureoffuch a Builder, and therefore a ftirring and changeable work, becaufe there might be no cunning mown, no de- light taken in one ever like or ftill thing, but light fighting for fpeed , is ever beft in fuch a ground : let us away, and follow. 13. Wherefore, by the example, and as it were by the fecret blafc and motion of God, after our men had found thefe refto- ratives 5 &: ufed them for the time,&: meant to leave them as becomes good men,to po- sterity, they took this way of counfel to lay LiB.I. The Holy Gnide 29 lay them up fafe ill aftrongCaftle,as ic were in die whicb all the broad gates and com- mon eafie entries mould be fail mut up and barred, leaving one onely little back doore open, fore- fenced with a winding- mark, that the beft fort, by wit,paines, and providence, might come into the ap- pointed blefTednefle, the reft ftand back forfaken ; their Maze and plot is this: firft, they hid themfelves in low and un- trodden places, to the end they might be free from the power of Prote ^ors^Scc.Sc the eyes of the wicked world -, and that they writ their bookes with fuch a wary and well fenced skill, I mean, to overcaft •with dark and fulJen fliadowes, and flye pretences of likes & fecret riddles drawn out of the midftof deep knowledge and. fecret learning, that it's impoflible for a- ny but the wife and well given, to ap- proach or come near the matter. 14. And therefore it is, that when the godlefs and unlearned men, hovering o- ver gaine and honour, prefume againft Minervas will to handle tbtfe vvords,wheii the things mould rather IPnandled (Tor nothing is fofc and gentle as fpeech, efpe- cially fo throughly tempered) and yet all befides the fecret meaning, thruft up in deep knowledge : then if thefe wayesand phantafics they pra£tife&: fet on work as faft go The Holy Guide. L1B.1. faft fas their fingers itch) and mifle as faft fas they muft needes doe) they fay they followed our rules and precepts, and puc our work in practice, and found them falfe 5 that were as if a cunning Archer and Huntfman had delivered as darke rules of {hooting and hunting unto his Countrey-men, and thefe by chance had fallen into the hands of another wild and untaught Nation, which {imply milled by miftaking his drift and meaning, had made them ploughs to {hoot in, and go- red their Oxen to their game, and then milling of their purpofe, cryed out and blamed the Arts of mooting and hunting, & fought to blow away 8c abufe the man that taught them : would not a wife Judge hold and deem both thefe and them, and all other bufie-bodies, that doe ufe to mine and dig in other mens deal- ings, to be fent unto their own trade and bufincffi, wherefore they were made and fashioned > and to let the reft alone for the right owners? and for thofe of Her- mes houfe, do noc think they make claim, file, and recoveTOheir own in open court/ as others ufe (thatwere away in fuch a wicked world* to fofe land, life and all to- gether quickly J but in the fecret fort , which falleth out within the compaffe of your reproof Neither would I have you fol- LlB. 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The Holy Guide. follow too hard, and be fo earneft upon the next reafon, that albeit our men had caufe to hide their works and prac"tice,yet they would have (hewn the fruit and er- fe& thereof, advancing themfelves, aso- thers doe, to Honour and Pleafure, and not have lived like the refufe of the orid,in fuch mean plight and wretched- nefte; for that is the lighted of all other, though it feem greateft : if I lift to rifle in the rolls of ancient Records, 1 could tafilyfindeand fhew you, that although :he moft part of people live in this harm- .efle and fafeeftate, which I told you, yet fome again were Kings, and men of great place and dignity fand yet I think by re- minder, and not by purchafe,fo$) but I ove not this kind of reafoning ; let them :hatthirft, go to the fountaine, and as I emember,that in the houfhold ofR.Gru- an Riches are made but Servants,&: not afters & Rulers, becaufe they be, for the oft part, unruly and ambitious; and for hatjeaufe they have no liberty granted hem,but arc enjoynd to ferve lowly their tetters, and to look no further; fo that if )iir men were happy, or at ieaft lovers of he fame,their riches ought to be imploy- d in their own fervice, that is, to win /Vifdomeand Vertue, and not fent out to vait upon I know not whatftrangers, Ho- nour 3?. The Holy Guide. LlE.T. nour and Pleafure 5 which, as they be Grangers, yea, and dangerous ftrangers, lying open fas all high things doj to the blaft of Envy, fo moft commonly they I; will not be ruled, no more then they | which got them, and then rebelling a- I gainft them which are their Lords and [ Rulers , doe overthrow an happy e- t irate. 15. Wherefore, what marvel is it if our jji men did this, when they did no more J then wifdom requires,norany more then J all wife men have ever taught and fol- f lowed ? thinking and calling it an hea- ¥ venly life, becaufeit flinders the heaven- f lymind from the earthly body * not fas I' Vliny writes of Hermeticm) by lending the W fame out of the body to gather and bring home newes, but by an high contempt of earthly matters, and flying up to divine thoughts,not with the golden feathers of Euripides,but with the heavenly wings of |m flato. 16. And therefore this fame divine man ! makes that minde alone the whole man the body of a thing that is his, and be-! longing unto him, but unto his, that is the body s and, as I may terme thenb his mans men. And this thing alfo Bias before him, did as well performe, when at the fpoyle of the City, having leave 5 he took not LiB.l. The Holy Guide. 33 not his carriage with him, and anfwered to the check of his friends, that he carri- ed all his own things with him, which was nothing but a naked body. Ariftotle is of the fame minde with Thto, asappeares notably in his laft Book of Manners, where he hath laid down many found reafons why this life is beft, and fo by wife men, is and ought to be taken ; becaufeitis, faith he, the mod quiet life , and fulleftof true delight* and with all things needfull beft ftored *, for indeed ic ivanteth nothing; for what> as a minde is divine in rcfpe&of a body, fo is the life of t, which is that we fpeak of, in regard of i civil and worldly life. And againe, if 3ur mindes are our felves, it were meet to ;ead our own life before ftrangers : but aft of all, becaufe God, our oncly pat- ern 5 leadeth no other life but this.* I night be very large, if 1 lift to feek about ;nd traverfe this matter: but here ise- }Ough to fnew the purpofe and reafon our .lien of Egypt had; it was in their choice o chufe this kinde of life which the world ■b defpifeth : but how if I could bring ,:hem in bereaved of all choice and free- vill, and driven by force of neceffity to lo the fame? would not that flop the videft mouths, think you, in all this la- -ifti company ? let us know firuy that the G ' minde 34 The Holy Guide. Lib.!. minde of man being come from that high. City of Heaven,defireth of her felf to live (till that heavenly life, that is the bleffed life above defcribed ; and if there be any let, as there is likely it is, in the weight and grofsnefle of our body, over weigh* ingourmindesdownto the ground, and to all their own muddy matters then that our men, after they have got this golden Stone, fo famous in the world, do not, as they think, and would doe, ftraightwayes run to their Coffers > but firftand chiefly gild their bodies with it: wherefore af- ter that, by that mighty, fine and tempe- rate Medicine,they have fcoured out ofall grofsnefle and diftemper of the body, the onely lets to understanding and good manners, as we (hall heare hereafter, and thereby leave the mindes at large, and' alnfoftat her firft freedome > (he, and fo they together laying aiide,and,asit were, casing down all earthly matters, muft return to their own former life again ; Co far, I mean, as the condition and (late of man will fuffer ; and fo put cafe you find your own dark and dusky eye-fighr, fo (bone taken with every foule, vaineand worldly fancy, yet you muft not judge thefe heavenly men thereby, but think the moft (harp and clear fight of their un- derftanding eafily able to fee the blemifh and Li B.l. The Holy Guide. * $ and to avoide the Call of common love. 1 8. Wherefore, to clofe up this poini at la ft, fith this happy craft of Hermes, for ought that they know, may be v true and lonourable j let the common and un- earned fort ftay their judgement, and eave thetriall fifting of any further mat- ter unto the wife and learned, and there in all directions, if they have none of themfeives, might learn better advife, before for the fault of fome, they turn to any raging counfei, and bend tbeedgeof Authority againft all. 19.I grant, that as in all good Arts, {o in this,becaufe it is thefecreeeft; there be bme drones crept in among the friends : vhat then, as they are of another kinde,- r never begotten by Hermes, or any of his ?ns , fo no reafon they mould uander he Name and Houfe of Hermes, but bear he burden of their own faults 5 then lay be forted out and knownfromthe oly ftinged and profitable Bee : firft, by heir bignefle in words and braggs, and hen fas followeth lightly by the courfe f kinde^) by their ftingleffe and unar- ied weakneffe in all defence of learning % nd thirdly, by their floth and idlenefle \ f>r although they never leave Sirring, G % ye* 36 The Holy Guide. • LlB.i. yet, as Seneca, faith, operofe nihil (tgunt, they painfully do nothing, becaufe all they do is to no purpofe, all is fruitlefle and) unprofitable. But Dioclefwn lacked this difcerning vvifdome, and rafhly ranne upon all, and burnt the Bocke, much! like that part of Lycurgus, who for the? drunkenneife of the people, cut downe the Vines ; had it not been better to have brought the fprings of water nearerJ and to have bridled, as Flato faith, thaty made good with theiober? Even fo the Emperour might withl better advice have tempered the heat: of Akhimy with the cooling Card olf Discretion, and made it an Art lawfull! for a fmall number onely , and with like charge to be practiced, which hadj.* been a Counfel worthy wife Princes A neither to let the hope of fo great ac Treafure goe for a fmall lofle, nor yet upon unceitaine hopes, be it never fc great, to lofe a certaine great thing, to wit, the life and goods of his Sub-i jefts well and orderly bellowed. Now let us Joyne Art and Nature together, to know all things paft, prefent, and tc come; that Long Life, Sec. may be with the more pleafure enjoyed ; for aftei this methodically Holy Guide, Know- ledge,, Lie .i. The Holy Guide- 1 9 ledge 5 the reft will be imperfeft : then Knowledge compleats Happinefle, Long Life perfects Knowledge ; Health com- forts Long Life : Youth pleafes Health ; Riches rejoyce Youth 5 Youth embraces VVifdome and Vertuc, &:c. which you (hall finde all in order. C 3 TO THE HolyGuide, Leading the way to Vnite Art and Nature : In which is made plain All things paft prefent, and to corner. By JOHN HEYDON Gent **«*««> A Servant of God and Secretary of Nature. Thus have I declared unto you the defcent ofthefe* cret power of .Nature from GOD 9 even to this Earth, The Harmony of the World, Book^i. C&*/M. Page 9. LONDO N, Printed by T. M. for the Author* 1662. %• * $ ♦ * * TO THE Truly Noble by all Titles, Sir \alph Freeman, Baronet, &c. External, internal, and eternal bapfi~ nejji btrvijhed. Jie Rofie Crucians have a yery Excel, lent opinion (Moft hono- red Sir) that We ought to labour in nothing more in this TheEpiftle this life, then that We de- generate not from the Ex- cellency of the minde, by Which We come nearejt to Cjod, and to put on the dhine 3\(ature : left at any time our mind waxing dull by yaine idlenejfts, fhould decline to the frail- ty of our earthly body, and Vices of the flefh. So We fhould lofe it, as it Wert-> cafi down by the dar\pre- apices ofpenerfe Lujls. Wherefore We ought fo to order our mind, that it by itfelfe, being mindfuU 4 Dedicatory, of its own dignity and ex- cellency floould alwayes both think-, doe, and ope- rate fomething Worthy of itjelf: 'But thetyioWledg of divine Science doth on- ly and very powerfully perform this for us, when We by the remembrance of its Afajejly, being always bufied in divine Studies, do every moment contem- plate divine things, by a fage and^dtligent inquifi- tion,and by au the degrees of the Creatures afcending even to the Arch*type^ mm- The Epiftle bint/elf, to draw JromA him the fecret TraBick^ I Theory of Art and 3\(a-\ ture according to the do-\ Brine of the HolyGuide,! Which thofe that negleffA tmfltng onely to natural^ and Worldly things, are\ Wont often to be confound^ ed by divers errours and\ fallacies, and very oft to be\ deceived by evilfpirits. IButthe underftandingj, of the Holy Guide pur-j geth the mind from errors , I andrendreth it divine? gi.\ veth infallible power to our\ Ro- Dedicatory Roiie Crucian Ciuidejdr drivethfar the deceits & objiacles of all ei^/Spirits, & together fubjefts them to our commands ; yea, it compellsgood Angds 9 and all the powers of the World unto our fervice v\z. The vertue of our Art being drawne from the Arch- Type himfelfi To Whom when we afcend, all Crea- tures neceffarily obey us, and all the Quire of Hea- ven do follow us. Seeing therefore {Lear- ned Sir) you have a ^Divine and Immortal TheEpiftle foule given you , Which 9 feeing the goodnefs of the Divine Providences Wei/ difpofed fate , and the~> bounty of Stature have in fuch manner giftedfhat by the acutenefs of your underfianding& perfect- neffe offenfes^you are able to view, fearch, contem- plate, difcern and fierce thorough the pleafant Theatre of ^jturaH things, thefublime houfe of the Heavens, and mofb difficult pajfages of account of all opinions, theje ^ules, Which We~> haroe read & learned \ e- ifpecia/Jy their precious \fSAdedicines &theirgrea- » tejlfecrets of thePmtar- t va, &c. frith their gift of I healings according to our * complexion and capacity* I W'eprefent therefore^ ;, now to you a compleate Work-in the\io\y Guide, I Which TheEpiftle which We have perfected With diligent care, and ye- ry great labour and pains both of mind and body : and though it be rude and unpolifhed in refpetl of Words, yet it is truly ela borate in refpeB of mat- ter : wherefore I defire this one favour, that To u Would not expeft the~> grace of an Oration,or the Elegancy of Speech in this\ 2?0o^, Which We Wrote long fmceand revifed im our dayes of mourningjor the death of our felloW- Trifo] Dedicatory. '2, \ Trifonev Iohn Hewit , ; Vottor of 'Divinity, and i others, TPho toere fpite- | fully thrufi into Qaole^ | 'With us, and many cru- elly murdered by the Ty- rant Cromwell, becaufe they loved our Soveraign Lord the KING. And TPe expeBed to Juffer fop our Loyalty t to His Sacred Majefiy s the K^l 3\£ g ; but our e Efiates ranfomed our r Lives, &c. r Jgaine, We hare^ i. chops the leffe Elegancy againjl mee , I efpecial/y of thofe^ Who I boa ft themfehes to heel allyed to C/0 *D , andi fully replenifljed With\ read or rightly under- ! flood any thing of them, i\ becaufethefe ME^Dl- CI «2V££ £ agree not I With their ^Bodies nor u fuch fweet Flowers with t their nofe. And alfo by e reafon of that fparke of ■hatred, long fince coth I cefted againfi me for my ir loving and ferviceable y Z)z en- TheEpiftle endeavours to help tht-> \pyall Tarty to rejiore the KJ3\C(jo and yet fcarce containing itfelfo under the djhes. There- fore^ ear Sir, W ~e fur- ther fubmit the ^ules a- Jcribedbymeto the merits of your Venue, and now made yours, to your cen* \ jure, and commend it to k your TroteBion, that if \ the bafe and perfidious \ Sophifiers would defame it by the groffe madneffe of their envy and malice, 7 bu would by theperfpu cacy Dedicatory. cacy of your difcretion & candour of fudgement, happily prote ft and defend it and me. Your moft humble Servant and true Honourer, fohn Heydon. D3 BOOK L i B. 2. The Holy Guide. BOOK. II. Chap. I. l.Oftke wonder full Secrets ^/Numbers, q xf their Signification. %.How Moles flnwed fo many figns by them, \tfow JofhuaaWe ffoSun ftand (till by Numbers. 5. H Z^y Numbers Elijah r«*//ed down fire front heaven upon his enemies. 6. How by theft following Numbers the Rofie Crucians fore* know all future things^ 7, command whole Nature^ have power ovtr De- vils, and Angels, and do Miracles^ &c. 8 .How by this Number <* River fpak$ to Pythagoras. Have obferved, that the Numbers which are now vulgarly ufed amongft A- rithnjeticiam and Calcula- J« fsn,have been in old time much more efteemed then they are now^ the order of them is D 4 made The Holy Guide. LiB.n made after this manner, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9. to which is added a note of privation figned wirh the mark c, which although it fignifie no Number, yet it makes others to fignifie, either tens, or hundreds, or thousands, as is well known to Arithmeti- cians. The vertues and fignification of thefe Numbers, the Hebrews are of opini- on were delivered to Mofes by God h\m- felfupon Mount Sinai y and then by de- grees of fucceffion without the Monu- ments of Figures or Letters was until I the time ofEfdras delivered to others by word of mouth onely, as the Pythagorean opini- ons were formerly delivered by Archipfus and Lyfinus, who had Schooles at Ihebes] in Greece, in which the Scholars keeping 1 the precepts of their Matters in their me- ! mory,^id life their wits and memory in- ftead of Books. 2 Mofes delivers a double Science of this i Art-, The one of Brefith, which they call Cofmologie^ viz. explaining the power of; things created, Natural and CelefKal,and ! expounding the Secrets of the Law and Bible by Philofophicai reafons. 3.Which truly upon this account differs nothing at all from Natural Magick, in which we believe King Solomon excelled; for it is written he was skilled in all things^ even from the Cedar of Lebanon to the i Ll B . 2 . The Holy Guide- the Hyfop that growes upon the wall. 4.Alfoin Cattle, Birds, Creeping things and Fijhes : All which (hew he knew the Ma- gicall vertues of Nature and Numbers: The Rofie Crucians follow after this,as you may read in my Book of Geomancy and T^elefnts, entitled, The Temple of Wifdome ; and in my Way to Blijfe, and Rofie Crucian Fhyficks 5. They call the other Science thereof Mercara, which is concerning the more fublime contemplation of Divine and Angelick vertues,and of Sacred Numbers, being a certain Symbolicall Divinity, in which Numbers and Letters are Ideas of mod profound things, and great Se- crets. This is the Rofie Crucian Infallible Axiomata, which teacbeth of Angelical! Vertues, Numbers, and Names in the He- brew 3 alfo of the Conditions of Spirits and Souls in the Greeks Numbers and Names, which fearcheth into the Myfteries of Di- vine Majefty as the Emanations thereof; and Sacred Names in Latine Numbers and Letters, which he that knoweth, may excell withwonderfull Vertues, as that when he pleafeth, he may know all things {afti prefent and to come\ and command whole Nature,have power over Devils and Angels, and do Miracles. By this thev fup- pofe thac Mofes did (hew fo many iignes, and The Holy Guide. LlB.2 and turned the Rod into a Serpent , and the Waters into Blood, and that hefent Frogs> Flyes, Lice, Locnfts, Caterpillers, Fire, with Raile, Botches and Boyles on the £- gyptians, and flew every firit-born of man, andbeafti and that he opened the Seas* and carried his thorow 3 and brought Fountains out of the Rocks, and Quaiies from Heaven, that he fent before his clouds and lightning by day, a pillar of fire by night, and called down from Hea- ven the voice of the Living God. to the people, and did ftrike the haughty with Finland thofe that murmured with the Leprofie : and on the ill defer ving brought fudden deftru&ion* the earth gaping and f wallowing them up. 6. Further, he fed the people with Hea» venly Food., pacified Serpents, cured the envenomed , preferved the numerous multitude from infirmity, and their Gar- ments from wearing out, and made them Vi&ors over their enemies. To conclude, by this A rt of Numbers and Letters, Jo- Jhua commanded the Sun to {landflill^ Elijah cat ed down fire from heaven upon his eHemits> reftored a dead child to life , Daniel ft opt the mouths of the Lions ; the three children fangSon^sin the fiery Oven: Moreover, by this Idea of Letters and Numbers, the incredulous Jewes affirm, that even Chriji did Lib. 2. The Holy Guide. did fo many Miracles. The Rofie Crucians Very well know the Angels and spirits that govern thefe Numbers^ and therefore de- liver Charmes againft De vih , and their bonds, and the manner of Conjurations; for againft Difeafes, they heard a Brother make, a Spirit cry out, "O* fJLU T&V T$IVQV - j.Pytbagwas was not onely initiated into the Mofakal Art of numbers, but arrived alfo to the power of working miracles&s his going over a River with his Companions teftjfies that he fpeaking 80. & II in aTa- ble to the River, the River anfwering him again with an audible &: clear voice, Xet/pe TlvSaylpa, Salve Pytbagora 5 that he (hewed his thigh to Abarh the Prieft, and that he affirmed that it glittered like Gold, and thence pronounced that he was Apollo \ that he was known to converfe with his friends at Metapontium and Taurontenium? (the one a Town in Italy y the other in Si- cily, and many dayes journey diftance ) in one and the fame day. This makes good my Apologue at the beginning of A ntw Method ofRofie Crucian Pbyfic^nd the way U Blip. 8. Perpbyrius and Jantblicus report very ftrange things of him, which 1 willingly omit : 6 The Holy Guide. LiB.2* omit : I (hall oncly adde his Predi&ions of Earthquakes , or rather, becaufe that mayfeem more naturall, his prefent ma- king of Places in Cities, his filencing of violent Winds and Tempers ; his calm- ing the rage of the Seas and Rivers, Sec. whicii skill EmpedvcleSy Epiwenides, Cathar- tesy and Abatis having got from him, they grew fo famous, that Empfdocles was fur- named Alexanemm\ Epimenides , Cathartes, and Abatis^ JEthrobates from the power they had in fuppreffing of ftormes and winds, in freeing of Cities from the Plague, and in walking aloft in the Aire : which skill enabled Pythagoras to vifite his' friends after that manner at Metaponth wmand lauromenium^ in one and the fame day. CHAP. II. i .Of the Vowtr2.$.andVertues^. of Hebrew, 6.7. Greek and 8.Latine Letters, when the Numbers are attributed to them. 1. *T" He Pythagoreans fay that the very E&- -*- tnentsof Letters have certaine divine Numbers, by which coined from proper names of things, you may draw conjectu- res concerning Secret things to come. And LiB.2. The Holy Guide. 2. And there is an uneven Number of Vowels of impofed names, which did be- token Lameneffe, or want of Eyes, and fuch like misfortunes, if they be adigned to the right fide parts : but an even num- ber to them of the left ; And by the Number of Letters you may findeoutthe ruling Planets of any one that is borne, and whether the Husband or Wife (hall dye firft, and know the profperous or un- happy events of the reft of our works. 3.The Latinefireek^ and Hebrew Letters deputed to each Number,I (hall (hew ycu, j; being divided into three Clafles, whereof f the firft is of Vnites^ the fecond of Ttftf,the i third oiHundredis and feeing in the K*- man Alphabet there are wanting foureto make up the Number of twenty feveii Characters, their places are fupplyed with I, and II. fimple Confonants, although ithe Germans for bu the Afperate ufe a (doubles, the true Italians and French in their Vulgar fpeech put G joyned witht/. inftead thereof writing thus, Vullbelmus y and Guilkelmus. s the Holy Guide. LiE.2. ilil* I4 ls<^>7>3<9 Uo |20hcl4OHcl6cl7c lSo A16X1PIE1PI^1H[1[K1UMJ^|Q IP 1Q1 R 90 I iocl20ol3 0cUool> ool 5oc l 70c |So cl900 T|"TTU|"X I Y | Z'lTl V l~Hi [Hu Greek, l^i?0hl[2?|23|24 Capitalis. UlL^il 111 Jzl g k*! hohoi4ohoi^ol7 lSo[^ A|B|r|A|E|i:riH|©ri |K|A|M|NJ*|0|n I*? i^ooj 200(300! 400|s oo|£OOJ70o| 8 oo| 900 ■ 1p~rs~rT~l"r"iT~l x l ¥TnT 5~ iVour tfo C/*jJ« 0/ tfo Hebrew Num- bers are thefe. 9 L 8 l_Z 5 ni I 4 1 3 1 2|I 1? 1 SO j 7O 1 lO 1 50 !~4° I SC I 2*0 f|» y I a f y \ o 1 j I o 1 V I a ! 900! 800 I700 I 600 ! 500 J+oo'^ooUooWi Vl VI I l=3 ! T ! ftV*>l"V"| Noi LlB. 2, The Holy Guide ' Now if you defire t(5 know the Ruling Tlattetofawy that is borne, compute his name, and of both his Parents, through each Letter according to the Countrey he was born in, and the Number above writ- ten, and divide the fumme of the whole being gathered together by 9. fubftracV ing it as often as you can *, and if there re- main a unity, or 4. both fignifie the Sun ; if 2. or 7. both fignifie the Moon^ but three Jupiter; five Mercury ; fix Venus; eight Sa- turn; nine Mars. And the reafons thereof I have (hewed you in my Book of Geoman:y w&IelefineS) entituled. The Temple ofWtf- dome. . In like manner, if you defire to know the Afcendant of any one that is borne, compute his name,and of his Mother and Father, and divide the whole collected together by 12. if there remain 1. it fig- nifies the Lion $ if Juno 2. Aquarius; if 3. Capricorn; if 4. Sagittarius; 5. Cancer; if Venus 6. Taurus ; if palladium 7. Aries; if Vulcans %. Libra; ifVJtfrihis o. Scorpio; if - 10. Virgo 5 if 11. Fifces; ifP&g&w 12. they tcprefent Geminot. iof 6. And now let no maji wonder that by the Numbers and Letters all things may be knowne , feeing the Pjrfo*- gorean Fbilofophers and Rofie Crucians tefti- lo The Holy Guide. LlB.a. teftifie the fame: in thofe numbers lie certain hidden myfteries, found out by few h for the moft High created all things by Number, Meafure and Weight, from i whence the truth of Letters and Names had its original,which were not inftituted cafually, but by a certain Rule,although unknown to us. 7. Hence Saint John in the Revelation faith. Let hini which hath understanding com-j pute the Number of the name of thel Beaft, which is the Number of a man;| yet thefe are not to be underftood off thofe names, which a difagreeing diffe-j renceqf Nations^ and divers Rites of Na-j tions^ according to the caufes ofplaces,orj education have put upon men , but thofej which were infpired into everyone at hisl birth, by the very Heavens, with thecon-l junction of the Stars. 8. Moreover, Taftt, Rabanus, and K.l Lully have dedicated to the Elements andjfl Deities of Heaven, faered Numbers j fob; to the Aire they have defigned the num-l ber eight, and to Fire five, to Earth fixjf! to Water twelve. Befides unity is afcri-; bed to the Sun, in which God put his Ta-j 1 : bernacle; and that this alfo is of Jupiter^. doth the Caufative power of his Ideal ancty intellectual Species teftifie, who is thej: Head and the Father of the Gods^ as U-| nitjl LiB.2 . The Holy Guide. 1 1 unity is the beginning andParcnTof Num- bers, i. engraven in Brafie,thcy fay brin- geth a Spirit, inthefhapc of a black man Sanding, and cloathed in a white Gar- ment, girdled about, of a great body,with Ireddifh eyes, and great fhength, and he appeares like a man angry, and he givech Boldnefs > Fortitude,8c makes a man lofty „ j - — . . — - CHAP. III. 5 The Number of Ha ppinefs. M,;i. 2. Ihe Pythagorick Names or Nature if a Monad or Unite. 3,4. applyed to thefirji ■• dayeswork^: 5.6. What are the upper wa- ters: 7.8. And that fouls that depend hi yiyiw, are the Naiades or Water *' Nymphs, in Porphyrins : 9. That mat* * ter of it felf is immovable : 10. R. Bechai his Notation very happily explained in my I', 11. Temple of wifdome : 12. of the i Number One, and the fignification\ and if what Angel rules it. x, |. T Admire the goodnefs of God .towards 0- i his Creatures, how fit the Number v is to the jNature of every dayes wor.k : «fj And Co I conclude, that God ordered it fo mi on purpofe, and that in ail probability the Fythagorasvivs acquainted with his Axio* \t fH*te 3 and>that was the jreafoa tta P^%g*- m 1 E riant 1 2 the Holy Guide. L 1 B • i reans made fuch a deal of do with Num- bers, as you (hall find in Order , putting other conceits upon them then any other Arithmeticians doj and that therefore if fuch Theorems as the Tytbagoreans held, be found fuitablc and complyable with; Mofes his Text,it is a fhrewd preemption that the(e are the right Rofie Crucian AxioA tnata thereof. 2. Fbilo makes this firft day fpent in thd Creation of immaterial and fpiritual be] ings,of the intelle&ual world, taking it ill alarge fenfe for the Mundm vit^xht world of life and forms : And the Fythagorear^ call an fif& Form, and Z«» Life. Theij call it Zh?^ *t/p>®-, or the lower of Ju 2>iter,giving alfo the fame name to a Poin) or Center h by which they underftanjj the vital Formality or Center of things! the Rdtiones Seminales ; and they call tl unite alfo hky& c**svat'itk, which is S> minalForm; But a very fhortandfufficj* cnt account of Thilo's pronouncing th: Spiritual fubftances are the firft dayes worte; is, That as an Unite is indivifible,you ca- not make two of one of them,as you msM make of one piece of corporeal Mattf.d two by a&ual divifion or levering theH one piece from another 5 wherefore whli was truly and properly created the fi fc day 5 was immaterial,indivifible, and Ind- pcndct ; Lib. i . The Hoi) Guide. 1 $ pendent of the matter, from the highcft I Angel to themeaneft Seminal Form. 3. And for the potentiality of theout- I ward Creation,(ith it is not fo properly a- I ny real being, it can breed no difficultyjbut I what ever it is, it is referrible fitly enough I to incorporeal things, it being no object of 1 fenfe,but of intellect and being alfo im- I partible and undiminiftiable, and fo in a I fort indivifible ; the power cf God be- ing undiminiftiable, and it being an ade- quate confequence of his powers where- < : fore this potentiality being ever one, it is f rightly referred to the fift day. And in r refpeft of this the Pythagoreans call an 1 Unite uam, as well as the Binary y as alfo Aihay.'jrtA & ffKoJoMtt, which names plainly ^ glance at the dark potentiality of things, Jitec out by Mofes in the firft dayes Crea* lotion. D2i voy]o. Plato. 4 B#t of the Night, both day & skie were born B % ' 4. God Created now Corporeal ^matter ( as before the world of Life) Woat of nothing, which universal matter Wmay well be called jpvpi for extenfion is very proper to corporeal matter^ CafteWe tranflates it Uquidum , and this univerfai r E 2 Matter 1 4. The Holy Guide. Ll B. * Matter is moftwhat fluid ftill , all over the World , but at firft it was fluid uni- verfally. 5. fcuthereit may be,youwiil enquire, how this corporeal Matter (hall be concei-. ved to be betwixt the waters above, and thefe underneath; for what can be the water? above > Maimonides requires conti- nued Analogy in the hidden fenfe of Scripture 5 as you may fee in his Preface to his Moreb Nevochim : But I need not flie to that general refuge 5 for me think9J that the feminal forms that defcendj through the matter, and fo reach the pof- (ibility of the parts of the outward Crea- tion, and make them fpring up into Art 3 are not unlike the drops of rain that de« fcend through the heavens or ayr , audi make the earth fruitful *, Befides, the/W»i- na! forms of things be round , and con« tracked at firft,but fpread when they brinj any part of thepoilibility of theoutwardi Creation into Art,as drops of rainfprea< when they are fallen to the ground, fc that the Analogy is palpable enough though it may feem too elaborate, an< curious. We may add to all this* concert ing the Naiades, or ^ater-Nymfbs^h^t thu Ancients underftood by them, T** \i viz, happinefs and its effefts. CHAP. ao The Holy Guide. Ll B.2. CHAP. IV. This Slumber unites 5 Arts and Stature. t) 2, 5 5 4. IhatVniverfa! Matter is the fe- conddayes Creation, 5*6,7,8. faUymadc good by the Names and Propertie of the Number two s 9, 10, 11. its vertues. x. T Tow fitly again doth the Number X"l 2. agree with the nature of the work of this day , which is the Creation of Corporeal Matter,and thcPythagoreans call the number 2. «** matter, and Sim- flicius fpeaking of the Pythagoreans, EWoras IviAhTlufQ'zteyWf »* o$ify? fore? clvkata- *J.fa $ TifCtTOJ/, Mo /4 T^ UAW <»; AOft^Ofy $ o>Ktf ^cT/at/p^w? et/Tietj/. fhey might well ( fayes he ) call 1 . Form, as defining and terminating to certain fhape and proper- ty what ever it takes hold of, and 2. they might wcl 1 call Matter , it being undeter- minate, and the caufe of bignefs and di- fivibility, and they have very copioufly heaped upon the number 2. fuch appel- lations as are moft proper to Corporeal matter. Lib. 2. The Holy Guide. 11 matter. As y Avxw*- 7 "®'* ^w&fb™* ©"> unfigured, undeterminated , unlimited, for inch is matter it felf till form take hold of it. It is called alfo Ken from the fluidity of the matter, 'Asei* , '^ree/a, becaufe it affords fubftance to the Hea- vens and Stars ; NsT^©-, 'Hif <&, QcLv&to<, (i e J contention , rate, and death , for thefe are the conlequences of the foules being joyned with Corporeal matter. Kiviulufy and fometimes in Virgin Wax, and write the names of the man &: woman in Virgin Parchment ; to which appears a na- fydmaid having a lookjng-glafle in her hand, and a chain tied about her nec\, and nigh her a band font young man, holding her with his left band by the chain, and with his right hand he wil be playing with her hair,andfmilingon her 9 and thefe are fent by one of thofe Angels of the number. p.Aifo 2 Teftamcnts, 2 Commands of love LiB.2. The Holy Guide 2% Jove, 2 firft dignities, 2 firft people^ kinds of Spirits, good and bad, 2 intelleftuall Creatures^w^/gf/ and Soul,% great Lights, aSolftitia, 2 Equino&ials, 2 Poles, 2 Ele- ments, producing a living Soul,v/z. Earth and Water. Ey this number 2 it is faid Elijah called down fire from Heaven upon his enemies. And the name of God in the Ex- emplary world isexprefs'd with two Let- ters, n 1 Jah Vm Ell. And there are two in- telligible fubftanees in the intellectual world,i/ij&.anAngel,and the Soul;and two Lights in the Ceieftial world,the Sun,and the Moon ; and two principal feats of the Soul in the lefler world. *>i£.theHeart,and the Brain; and there are two chief of the Devils in the infernall world, viz. Beemotb zndLeviathoHyMo two things Chhft threa- tens to the damned, viz. Weeding and gnu* (hing of teeth. 10. The number 2 is faid to fignifiea : thing loft, and here they enquire whether a man mall be rich or poor. 11. This number is commonly made upon Brafs, that which is red or Copper* at the houre of 2, and Jejajelis the Angci that rules it,and 325. by that number was this book made. Chap, 26 The Holy Guide. LlB. 1 ( CHAP. V. The Slumber of Long Life. The Nature of theThird daye's worl^ i.fet by the Number 3. That the ntofi learned dot agree that the Creation was perfected at vnce y The Notation of WD jlrangefy a- gnedwith the Notorious conclufiom of thi Temple of Wifdom of the fignificatim oj the Number 3 : 1. IN this third day was the waters com- I manded into one place , the Eartf adorned with all manner of pIants,Para- dife and all the pleafure and plerity of itj created) wherein the Serpent beguih Eve* &c. What can therefore be mor< likely then that the Pythagoreans ufethei] Numbers as certain remembrancers o\ the particular paflages of this Hiftory of the Creation > when as they call theii Number 3. tvltuv & $&\a<&tiK0{ f i. e, Triton and Lord of the Sea, which is in refe- rence to Gods commanding the water in- to! LiB.2. The Holy Guide. 37 /j * »to one place, and making thereof a Sea, Ithey call alio the Ternary, Kifaf apctA.£t*? Eg-iffo?, the former intimates the plenty ofParadife, the latter relates to the Ser- pent there > but now betides thi$,we (hall Ifindethe Ternary very fignificant of the |natureof this dayes work 5 for firft, the jjearth confiits of the 3 Elements in my iBook, entituled. The Temple of Vifdome : i^for the truth of that Book will force it Jfelfiii here whether 1 will or no: ) And f ndeed I had no thoughts of this, when I : vrit that} and then again, there are three ' jrand parts of this third Element necef- Tiry to make an Earth habitable, the dry ]t and, the Sea, (whence are Springs and Ri- lw) and the Aire: And Iaftly, there are avegitables, which is the main work of ihis day, three eminent Properties,accor- ^flingto my Goufin JrLeydons Philofophy, ™\i'z . Nutrition, Accretion, Generation; and ^Ifo if you confider their duration, there J « three Cardinal points of \t,Ortus,Arme, %mt«fj you may call in alfo that Mine* [t kls, as the Arabians call them, which be- long to this day as well as Plants, that oth Plants and they, and in general all ®\'$rreftial bodies have the three Ghymical ei [ Rnciples in thcm^ Sal, Sulphur and Mer« •■) iry. ;lc ' : 2. As the matter of the UniVerfe came F out ^8 The Holy Guide. Lib. 2. but in the fecond day, fo the conttirinj of this Matter into Suns and Flanets i contained in this fourth day : The JEartl her felf not excepted, though it is faid (h was made in the firft day, and as (he is th nurfe of Plants, faid to be uncovered i> the third, yet as (he is a receptacle c Light, and fliines with borrowed rayc like the Moon and other Plants, (he ma well be referred to the fourth days Cres tion. 3. Nor will this at all feem bold har(h,if we confider that the learned ha\ already agreed, that all the whole Cre; tion was made at once As for exampl the moft rationallof all the Jewijh D< ftors, R. MofesEgyptius, Philo Jndeus, Abn ham Judeus, frocopim y Gareus^ Cardinal C< jetane, Saint Auguflin* and the Schooles 1 RilUl and Santa? ; fo that leifurely ord of dayes is thus quite taken away,& all t fcruple that may arife from that Hyfot a*. 4. Wherefore t fay the number 3 isan ii compounded number, a holy number number of perfection, a moft powerfi number; for there are three perfons God, there are three Theological vertu, in Religion : hence it is that this numb conduceth to the ceremonies of God at Religion, that by the fblemnity of whi< praye Ll B. 2. The Holy Guide. 29 prayers and facrirlces are thrice repeated^ and the Pythagoreans ufe it in their fan&i- fications and purifications , and it is mod fie in bindings or ligations. 5 . And in Johanna de Spagnet it was the cuftome in every Medicine to fpit with three deprecations, and hence to be cu- n red. The number of 3 i? perfected with 3 argumentations, long, broad and deep> :i f beyond which there is no progreflion of demenfion whence the firfi number is (Called fquare. Hence it is faid, that to be a body that hath 3 meafures, and to a Tquare number nothing can be added; wherefore Cardanus in the beginning of his ^'fpeech concerning Heaven, calls it as it ri were a Law, according to which all things are difpofed ; For Corporall and Spiritual things coniift of three things, viz. begin- ning, middle and end, by three the world lis perfe&ed Hemarmene, neceility and * ■ order, (i.e. ) concurrence of caufes, which many call fate,and the execution of them i fi to the fruit or encreafe, arid a due diitri- ) bution of the increafe; the whole meafure ' L of time is concluded in 3, viz, paft, pre- fent and to come : All magnitude is con- tinued in 5. Line, Superficies and body : every dayconfifts of 3 intervalls, lengthy 'bredth, thicknefs : Harmoniou* Muiick contains 3 confentsiii time a Viapafon 9 He- F a " motion? 3o 'The Holy Guide. LlB. t wiolion, Viatejfaron : there are alfo 3 kinds of Souls, vegetative^fenfitive^ and intelleUu- all. And God orders the world by num- ber, weight,and meafure-, as the number 3 is deputed to the Ideal forms thereof, as the number 2 is to the creating matter, and unity to God the maker of it : Rofie Crucians doe conftitute 3 Princes of the \\'oi\c\,Oxomafis^[ilris^Axamcis, (i.e.JGod, the Mind, and the Spirit ; by the 3 fquare or folid tlie 3 number of 9 of things produced are diihibuted, viz. of the fuperceleftial in nine , orders of Intel- ligences j ofCeleftial into 9 Orbs; ofinfe riour into 9 kindes of generable and cor- ruptible things : Laftly, in this- ternalf, Orbe, viz. 27. all mufical proportions are included, as Pinto and Vroclus doe at large difcourfe. 6. And the number of 3 hath in it a Harmony of 5, the grace of the firft voice, alfo intelligencie; there are 3 Hierarchies of Angelical Sprits ; there are 3 powers o! intellectual Creatures, memory, mind* and will: there are three orders of th blefled, viz. ofNiartyrs^Confefiors and Inno- cents: thereare three quaternians of Ce leftial figneSiViz.fixt) movable and common. and alfoofHoufes,*'^. Angels, Succedents, Cadents. Thereare alfo 3 faces and head! in every figne, and 3 Lords of each tripli- city* L I B . 2 . The Holy Guide. city, there are 3 fortunes amongft the Planets, 3 graces amongft the GoddefTes, 3 Ladies of deftiny amongft the infernal crew,3 Judges, 3 Furies, 3 headed Cerbe- ra,you read alfo of three double Hecats. 7. Three monethsof the Virgin Diana^ three perfons in the fuperfubftantiall Divinity, three times, of Nature, Law and Grace ; three Theological Vertues, faitby Hope and Charity ; Jonas was three dayes in the Whales belly, and 3 dayes was Cbrift in the grave. 8. In the Original world there are three Perfons in the Trinity, viz. The Father, the Son, the Son, the Holy Ghoft; and there are three Hierarchies of Angels in the Intelleftual world , viz Supreme, Middle, and Loweft ; and three degrees of the bleffed. Innocents, Martyrs, Gon- feQors. And there are three degrees of Elements, viz. Simple, Compound, thrice ■Compounded ; in the leffer world there are three parts anfwering the threefold \[ world, viz. the head, in which the intel- lect growes anfwering to the intellectual world, the breaft where is the heart fhe feat of life, anfwering to the Celeftial world; the belly, where the generation is, " and the genital members anfwering the Elemental world; and in the infernal world there are three Furies^iz, AleBo^ F 3 M*- 33 ihc Holy Guide. Lib. 2. JMtagtra, lefchone^ three infernal Jud- ges, Minos , Aarm Jxhadamantus ; three de- grees of the DanmedjTFickecl, Apoftates^In^ pdels. 9. The Chaos it felf in every firft Analjfis is alfo three- fold, the Saphireof the Chaos. is likewife three fold. And here is fix parts, which is the Pythagoreal Senarius^ or Hu- merus Conjugii : In thefe fix the influx of the Metaphyficks, called unity, is fole ?Vlonarch,and makes up the feventh num- ber, or Sabbath, in which atlaftby the aiiiftance of God the 'body (hall reft ; a° game, every one of thefe parts is two- fold, and thefe Duplicities are contra- rieties. Here you have twelve, fixand fix in a defperate diviiion, and the unity of -peace amongft them : thefe Duplicities confift of contrary Natures 5 one part is good, one bad, one corrupt, one incor- rupt ; one rational, one irrational; thefe bad, corrupt, irrational feeds, are the Tares and Sequels of the Curfe. This is s. he Ho[y. Guide. 10. Septem partibus 9 faith Zoroatfes, infunt duo "Tern aria-^ & in Medio flat unum Vuode~ cimjinnt in Bello, Tres Amici y "Ires Inimici ; Jres viri vivificant. Ires etiam occidunt, & Deus Rex fidelii ex fua. Santlitatu Atrio dd' mnatur omnibus^ uftas fufer Jres^ & Jresffa Lib. 2. The Holy Guide. 33 ferfeptent, &feptem fuper T>uodecim y & funt wines Stipatiy Alius cum Alio. 1 1 . By this number 3 in a Telefme o£Tin fophicly carried Vhity to Azotus. 1 2. The number 3 engraven in Quick- filver fixed according to Art, will bring to you an Angel in the form of a hand- fome young man bearded, having in his left hand a rod &a Serpent about it, and in his right fometimes he holds a Dart; and he they fay conferreth knowledge, e- loquence , diligence in merchandizing and gain by Sea ■> this maketh a man for- tunate in gaming,and to win. This num- ber thus engraven,makes menunderftand the way to Long Life. CHAP. 34 The Holy Guide. LiB.l, CHAP. VI. The 3\{jtrnher of Sta- ture and Health. i. Of the figmficathn of the Number 4. ? * 3 3 45 5- how the Corporeal world was univerfally eretted into form and Motion on the fourth day, 6. is wo (I notably confirmed ly the Title $ and froferty of the Num- ber 4. 7 5 8. The Infallible Roiie Cru- cian or Pythagorick Oath , 9, wherein tbeyfaore, ic 5 n. by him that taught them the Myjlery of the Tetradn. 1 2. that the Tztrafiuwas a Symbole of the whole Art, that lay coached in Numbers and Letters: 135 14. I he myfteryof the Number 4. 1. *TpHe Earth, as oneof the Primary X Planets, was cr£ated the fourth day , and I tranflate D D^nn primary Planets , primary becaufe of n Emphati- cally, and Planets becaufe the very Nota- tion of their name implies their Nature, foODO is plainly from *»D Vfiio 9 or burn- ing> and 33 extinction, Nouns made from n^D8d nnn as in and Dtf from PPH and DD^, according to unexceptionable Ana- logy. AndtheEarth, as alfo the reft of the Lie. 2 . the Holy Guide* 3 $ the Planets,their Nature is fuch,as if they had been once burning and mining Suns; but their light and heat being extinguifh- ed, they afterwards became Opacedpla- netsjthis conclusion feems here plainly to be contained in the Rofie Crucians and Mo- ps , but is at large demon ftrated in my New method of Rofie Crucian Phyfick^, 2. Nor is this Notation cf 33 vj ener- vated by Alledging that the word is or- dinarily ufed to fignifie the fixed Stars, as well as the Planets;for I do not deny, but that iu a Vulgar Notion it may be compe- tible to them alfo. For the fixed Stars according to the imagination of the rude people, may be faid to be lighted up, and extinguifhed, fo often as they appear and difappearifor they meaiure all by obvious fenfe and fancy, and may well look up n them as fo many Candles, fetup by Di- vine Providence in the night, but by day frugally put out for wafting : and I re- jnember iheodidadus in his ni{i vfovoicts , has fo glibly lwallowed down the Notion, that he ufes it as a fpecial Argument of Providence,that they can burn thus with their heads downwards, and not prefent- ly fwcll out and be extinguifhed , as our ordinary Candles are ; wherefore the word 33^3 may very weltfce attributed to. all the Stars, as well fixed as Planets, but to §6 The Holy Guide. LlB.2. to the fixed only upon vulgar feeming grounds 5 to the Planets upon true and Natural ; and we may be fure that is that which Engenius TheodidaUm , The Kofie Crucian would aim at , and lay ftrefle up- on, in the Book M. Wherefore in brief n Emphatical in i — mmm contains a double Emphafis, intimating thofe true DU3D or Planets,and then the moil emi- nent amongft thofe truly fo learned. Nor is it at all ftrange, that fo abftrufe conclu- sions of Philofophy mould be lodged in this Numeral and Literal Texts for as 1 havcelfewhere intimated , Mofes has been aforehand with Kofie Crucians , the ancient Tatriarbj having had will , and by reafon of their long lives, leifure enough to in- vent as curious and fubtle Theorems in Phi-» lofophy 3 as ever any of their pofterity could hit upon, befides what they might have had by tradition from Adam : And if we find the Earth a Vianet , it muft be ac- knowledged forthwith that it runs about the Sun,which is pure Kofie Crucian^ and a £hrewd prefumption that they were taught that myftery by Mofes: but that the Earth is a Planet 3 beiides the Notation we have already iniifted upon, the neceffi- ty of being created in this fourth day ambngft the other Planets, is a further Argumentj for there is no mention of its Ceeation LlB. 2. The Holy Guide. 73 Creation in any day alfe , according to. this Holy Guide. The Hebrew is jnan *7}7, And I have made bold to interpret it, not of this one individual Earth , but of the whole Spe- cies : and therefore I render it the world at large, as tTliSn, is not an individual man, but mankind in general. 3. This fourth dayes Creation is the contrivance of Matter into Suns and Pla- net s, or into £uns, Moons aud Earths; for the iEtherial Vortices were then fet a go- ing, and the Corporeal world had got in- to a ufeful Odder and (hape. And the or- dering and framing of the Corporeal world, may very well be faid to be tranf- a&ed into the Number 4. four being the firftbody in Numbers, and therefore pre- ferred before all the vertues, and the foundation and root of all Numbers is four h whence alfo all foundations^ well in Artificial things as Natural and Di- vine, are four fquare, as I (hall (hew you; and it fignifies folidity , which alfo is de- monftrated by a four fquare figure, and in a Equilateral pyramid, which figure alfo is a right Symbole of Light , the rayes entring the eye in a pyramidal form, and Lights now are fet up in all the vaft Regi- on of the iEtherial Matter which is hea- ven. The Pythagoreans alfo call this Number 58 The Holy Guide. L1B.2, Number cap* & KaV/xo? , body and the world , intimating the Creation of the Corporeal world therein, and further fig- nifying in what excellent proportion and harmony the world was made. See Cor- nelius Agripptt. 4.They call this Number ^Armonia and Vivien, & BitH%cto-/x3{f iviy&iejLov- Harmony^ Vrmid) and theftirrerup of Divine fury and extane,infinuating that all things are fo fweetly and fittingly ordered in the world , that the feveral Motions thereof are as a comely Dame,or rav idling Mudck, are able to carry away a concemplative Soul into Rapture and extalie upon a clearer view 5 and attentive animadverii- on of the order and Oeconomy of the Uaiverfe 5 and the Rofie Crucians in the head of a Catalogue of the mod famous Law-givers, do much Pythagorize,in the expreflion of Mofes \ they fay that this Number 4. concerns the molt perfect pro- portions in Mufical Symphonies •, viz. Viatejptron, Dictpent^ Diapafon, and T>if- diapafon, rnt /u$f) y£p V/ nk ixctra fi&vzwaw • Eecaufehe everywhere diftributes what is due to everyone ; this is in ordinary Language, Jufticc j and both Pbilo and Plotimts out of the Pythagoreans , affirm that the Number four is a Symbole of juftice, all which makes towards what I drive at, that the whole Creation is concerned in this Number four , which is called the fourth day. And for further Eviction we may yetadd, thatasall Numbers are contain- ed in four vertually, (Eyall Numbers is meant ten,for when we come to ten,we go back again ) fo the root and foundation of all the Corporeal Creation is laid in this fourth days work 3 wherein Suns,Eartb 9 and Moons, and the ever whirling Vorti- ces ; for as Pbilo obfasz^Pythagorean like, ten (which they call alfo Ko^c*, v&ros> .& cwrfcM/flt, the World, Heaven, and all perfettnefs) is made by the fcattering of the parts of four thus, one, two, three, four; put tY efe together now and they are ten. Tldj?7itei&, to tav, the Univerfejthis was fuch a fecret amongft Pythagoras his Difcipies, that it was a folemn Oath with them , to fwear by him, that delivered to them 4 and the fountain of nature Eternal, parent of the minde, &c, 5. Thus they fwore by Pythagoras, as is conceived, who taught them this Myfteri- ous Tradition , had it not (think you ) been a right worffripful rriyftery,and wor- thy of the folemnity of Religion and of an Oath , to underitand that one, two, three, four, make ten, and that ten is all which rude mankind told firft upon their lingers, and Arithmeticians difcoveritby calling them Digits at this very day. There is no likelihood that fo wife a man as Pythagoras was, fhould lay any ftrerTe upon tech trifles, or that his Scho- lars mould be fuch fools as to be taken with them 5 but it is well known, that the Pythagoreans held the motion of the Earth about the Sun, which is plainly implyed, according to the Holy Guide of this fourth dayes work. So much of hisfecrets get out tocommon knowledge andfameasl conceived, that the choiceft and moftpre- tious treasure of knowledge being laid open in the K. C. Infallible Guide of the fourth day; from thence it was that fd much folemnity and Religion was put upoi! upon that Number , which he called his letraUti, which feems to have been of two kinds , the one the (ingle number of four, the other thirty fix made of the four firft Mafculine numbers. And the four firft feminine, viz. i, 3,5, 7. and 2,4,6,8. wherein you fee that \ the former and more fimple letraftU is ftill included and made ufe of 5 for four here takes place again in the alignment of the Mafculine and feminine numbers 5 whence I further conceive, that under the number of this more complex Tetra9,which conteins al- io the other in it , he taught his Difciples the Myftery of the Creation, opening to them the nature of all things, as well Spi- rituals Corporeal, *Oyd§ d'pTtos & c&ew^d* to t\ai rix.lv %%$ % Tctd-iiTiKw, cTe weetTJos to arfxiitov *} dnctQls j£ fidLTiwv A;o (Afi Stjx 9 Acheron. ic. And d e number four makes up all knowledge-, firft it fills up every hmple progrefs of numbers with four terms, viz. with one,two,trme, and four,conftiruting the number ten-, it fils up every difference of LiB.3. ihe Hoi) Guide. 45 of numbers,the one even,and containing thefirft odd ink, it hath the grace of the fourth voyce, Alfo it contains the in- ftrument of four firings, and a Pythagore- an Diagram , whereby are found out firft of all Mufical tunes 5 and all Harmony of Mufick for double, treble, four times dou- ble,one and a half, one and a third part,a concord of all , a double concord of all, of five of four , and all ccnfonancy is li- mited within the bounds of the number four 5 It doth alfo contain the whole of Mathentaticksm four terms,i//«. point,line, . fuperficies , and profundity : it compre- hends all nature in four terms , viz. fub- ftance,quality, quantity, and motions alfo all natural Philofophy, in which are the feminary vertuesof nature, the Natural fpringing 3 the growing Form , and the Compofitum : Alfo Met aphy fields is compre- hended in four bounds, z/i&. being,eiTence, vertue^ and a ft ion 5 Moral Philofophy is comprehended with four vertues, viz. Prudence, ] uftice^Fortitude, Temperance. It hath alfo the power of Juflice for Times or Termes in the year at fFefttnin- /fcr-Hall j all manner of Cafes are Tried and Suits in Law , to the content of the people. Hence a fourfold Law of Pro- vidence from God 5 fatal from the foul of the world, of Nature from Heaven , of G 2 Prudence 46 the Holy Guide. LjB.2 Prudence from man -, Of this you may be better fatisfied in my Book entituled,Tfo? Idea of the Law, &c. 1 1 . There are alfo four Judiciary pow- ers in all things being, viz. the Intellect, Difcipline, Opinion and Senfe : It hath alfo great power in calling of Names, of Spirits and Angels,and in PredicYiGns,and in all Myfteries 5 hence the Rofie Crucians do fatifie the Number 4 with an Oath, as if it were the number that God had fixed on them, to coufirme their Faith^ as ap- 1 peares in thefe Verfes -, ©J y.£ Toy yiAiifiA 4 V X* *£§ et^ovjet 7lT$a.K\av Tlat£etv 'O^ity vetw. i e. By him that did to us difclofe The Tetrads Myflerie : Where Natures found that overflows. And hidden root doth lie. Now there are four Gofpels received from 4. Evavge lifts throughout the wholei Church, the Hebrews received the chief name of God written with four Letters: Alfo the Egyptians, Arabians, Perfians, fAa- gitians, PAahumetans, Grecians, Tufcans, La- tines, write the name of God with onely foure Letters, viz. thus, Thet , Alia, Sire. Orfi, Abdi, eio^ Efar, Veus. In the Origi- ns Ll B. 2. The Holy Guide. 57 nal world, from whence the Law was re- ceived. The Name of God is written with four Letters. fnrP In the intellectual world whence the fatal Law was received, there are four Triplicities, or intelligible Hie- rarchies, Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones-, Do* minations , Towers, Venues; Principalities, Archangels, Angels-, Innocents, Martyrs,Con- fejfirs : And there are four Angels, ruling over the four Corners of the world, viz. Micahel, Raphael, Gabriel, Vrieljour Rulers of the Elements, Seraph, Cherub, Tharfis, Ariel-, four cohfecrated Animal?, the Li on, the Eagle, Man, a Calf ; four Tripli- cities of the Tribes of lfrael; ~D an, After, Nephtalint'y Judah, Iflachar, Zabulun \ \Ma- naffeh, Benjamine, Ephraim; Reuben, Simeon, Gad-, four Triplicities of Apoftles, Mat- thias, Veter, Jacob the elder; Simon, Bar- tholomew, Matthew, John, Philip, James the younger ; Thaddeus, Andrew , Thomas ; four Evangelifts, Matthew, Mark^, Luke and John. t2. The Celeftial Worldiscoaftituiedby the Law of Nature: four Triplicities of Signas, Aries, Leo, Sagittarius-, Gemini, Li- bra, Aquarius', Cancer, S cor pius,Pi fees-, Tau- rus, Virgo, Capricornus ; four Elementary -Scars and Planets, Mars and the Sun, Ju- piter and Venus, Saturn and Mercury, the fixed Stars and the Moon. G 3 Four 48 The Holy Guide. LlB.2. Four qualities of theCelcftial Elements, Light, DiaphanoufueflTe, Agility, Solidity, where Generation and Corruption is ac- cording to the Elemental Law \ there is Fire, Aire, Water and Earth ; and foure qualities, Heat, Moyfture, Cold,Drynefs 5 and four kinds of mix'd bodies. Animals, Plants, Metal?, Stone?-, four kinds of A- nimals, Walking, Flying, Swimming, Creeping j and four things anfwer the E- lemeuts in Plants, viz Seeds, Flowers, Leaves, Roots ; fo in Cecals, Gold, Iron, Copper and Tin, Quick filver, Lead and Silver; and in Scones there are four an- fwer the Elements, bright and burning, light and tranfpareant,clear and congea- led, heavy and dark. 1 3 . In the Law of Prudence, Man,there are four Elements, the Mind, the Spirit, the Soul, the Body; four powers of the Soul, the Intel left, Reafon, Phantafie , Senfe ; four Judiciary powers, Faith, Sci- ence, Opinion, Experience j four Moral Vertues, Juftice, Temperance, Prudence, Fortitude *, four Senfes relating to the E- lements, Sight, Hearing, Taft and Smell, Touch -j four Elements in the body. Spi- rit, Flefh, Humours, Bones s a four- fold Spirit, Animal, Vital, Generative, Natu- ral ; fourHumours,Choler,Blood,Flegm, Melancholy ; four manners of comple- xions, L i B. 2. The Holy Guide. 49 xions, Violence, Nimbleneffe, Dulnefle, Slownefs. By the Law of Punifhment in the Infer- nal World, there are four Princes of £pi« ritsthat rule the four evil Angels of the world, Oriem^aymon^Egin^ Amainon. This number caft in a Telefme of filver by Art, brings to you t he form of a Virgin, ador - ned with fine cloathes, with a Crown on her: This number giveth acutenefle of wit, and the love of men. 14. The number 4 they fay, Telefma- tically engraven in filver with the name of the Angel of the day and hour, and the parties name, and the name of his Genius^ according to the Letters in the Fi- gure of the world, all gathered together, will produce thefociety of an Angel, who appears like a man fitting in a chaire, hol- ding a balance in his hand; and they bur- ned Nutmegs and Frankinfence before him; and he made the number fortu- nate and happy to the bearer by Merchan- dizing : this number according to Art en- graven, makes a man healthful in, a!) Contreys. CHAP. 50 The Holy Guide. Lib. a CHAP. VII. T^e-j Slumber of Tomh, i. Of the Signification of the Number 5» 2. And what Angels may be c ailed by it 5 3. And how they may affear. 1. 'TpHe Number 5 is of nofmall force ; JL for it confifts of the iftrft even, and the firft odde, as of a female and male; for an odde number is the male , and the even the female; Rofie Crucians call that the Father, and this the Mother : Therefore the number 5 is of no fmall perfection , or vertue , which proceeds from the Mixtion of thefe numbers; it is alfo the jure middle of the univerfal num- ber, viz, 10. for if you divide the number 10. there will be 9 and one, or 8 and ?, or 7 and 3, or 6 and 4. and every collection makes the number 10. and the exact mid- dle isalvvayes the number <^. and its equi- diftant ; and therefore it is a number of Mirth and good fellowfhip; it is called by the Pythagoreans the number of Wedlock, as alfo of Juftice, becaufe it divides the number LiB.2. The Holy Guide. 51 number 10 even* there is alfo in it an emblem of Generation *, as an Eagle ingendringwith an Eagle brings forth an Eagle; and a Dolphin engendring with a Dolphin, &c. wherefore the Pythagoreans this number Cytherea, that is Venus ^ and r*V°,*5 Marriages and in Birds it is evi- dent that they chufe their Mates : That the Image of God confifts in this, rather then in the dominion over the Creature, i take to be the right fenfe, and more Phi- lofophical, the other move Political. It is a wonder, fayes Grotius 3 to fee how the explication of the Pvabbins upon this Fra: and thofe paflages in Flato\ Sym.po- Hon agree one with another j whith, not- withftanding whatfoever proceeded, I make no queltion, fayes he, but they are falfe and vain; and I mult confeffel am fully of the fame opinion: but this itrange agreement Ariftof banes his Narration, in the forenamed >ympofton y and the Com- ments of the Rabbins, upon the Rofie. Cru- cian M. is no fmall argument that Plato had fome knowledge of Mofes^ which may well adde the greater authority and cre- dit to this our Holy Guide 5 but it was the wifdome of Plato to owne the Holy Guide himfelfe ; by fuch unwarranta- ble Fancies as might rife from the Num- bers and the Text, to caft upon fuch a 5 2 The Holy Guide. L | B.2 . ridiculous fhallow Companion as Arifto- fkanesy it was good enough for him to ut- ter in that club of wits, that Philofophick Sympofion otPUto. 2. and there be five fenfes in Man,Sight Hearing, Smelling, FeelingiTafting, five powers in the Soul, vegetative, fenfitive, concupifcible,irafcible,rational: 5 fingers on the hand, ^e wandring Planets in the Heavens, according to which there are five- fold terms in every fign ; in Elements there are five kinds of mixt bodies, viz. Stones, Metals, Plants, Plant-animals,and fomany kinds of Animals, as men, four- footed beads, creeping, fwinniin~,flying. And there are five kindes, by which all things are made of God, viz. Effence, the fame, another, fenfe, motion ; the Swal- low brings forth but five young, which (he feeds with equity, beginning with the cldei^ andfo the reft according to their age : alfo this number hath great power in Expiations j for in holy Geomancy and'TV- lefmatical Figures, it drives away Devils, in natural things it expels poyfon; it is cal- led the number of fortunateneffe and fa- vour s and it is the feal of the Holy Gboft, and a bond that binds all things, and the number God loves; it is the number of the Croft) yea eminent with the principal wounds of Chrift, whereof he vouchfafed to LiB. 2. ihe Holy Guide. 53 to keep the Scars in his glorified body. The Philofophers did dedicate it as fa- cred to Mercury^ ft eeming the vertue of it to be much more excellent then the number four,by how much a living thing is more excellent then a thing without life ; for this five in a Figure of Geommcy y ftfoah found favour with God , and was preferved in the Flood of waters that overflowed Palajlma , Jfamia, and the Country of the Eaft. 3. In the vertue of this Number, Abra- ham being an hundred years old , begat a Son of Sarah, being ninety years old,and a barren woman , and paft child-bearing, and grew up to be a great people. Hence in time of grace,the name of DivineOm- nipotency is called upon with five Letters ; for in time of Nature the Name of God was called upon with th ee Letters : In the time of the Law the ineffable Name of God was exprefTed with four Letters. And in the exemplary world. The Name of God isexpreft with five Letters, Eloim-, and the name of Chriji with five Letters, lhefu : In the intellectual world there are five intelligible fubftances, viz Spirits of the firft Hierarchy called Gods , or the Sons of God: Spirits of thefecond Hie- rarchy 3 called Intelligences; Spirits of the third Hierarchy, called Angels , or MefTen- 54 Tfo holy Guide. L ■< B. 2, gers, which arefent, fouls of Celeftial bo dies, Heroes or bleffed Souls : In the Cele ftial world, there are five wandring Stars Lords of the Terms, Saturn, J upiter,Mars\ VenuS) Mercury, There are in the Elemen tary world five kinds of corruptible things, Water, Air, Fire, Earth, a mixed body, and five kinds of mixt bbdies. Ani- mal, Plant, Metal, Stone, Plane Animal And in the Infernal world there are five Corporeal Torments, deadly bitternefs. horrible howling, terrible darknefs, un- quenchable heat, and piercing (rink. The Number five engraven Telefmatically in Gold, with the Numbers of Letters o names,of Angels, Planets, and dayes, the) fay will bring to you a woman Crownec with the gefture of one dancing in a Chariot, drawn with four horfes ; and i flame of Lightning attends her : Thi number makes a man fortunate in Phy fick,Chymiftry,^ftrology,Geomancy,anc happy in fporting with women ; they fa) it maketh Ladies beautiful,and beloved o whom they pleafe,^. CHAP Lib. 2. The Holy Guide. 55 CHAP. VIII. The~> [h[umber of Riches. i. Of the Signification of the Number fix> 2. And why the whole Creation was com- prehended within it. 3. And how a Spirit carried away a Quaker. 4,5,6. Of the vertue of the Number . 1. -yHe Senarius or number fix. has a JL double reference, the one to this particular dayes work j the other to the whole Creation. For the particular dayes work,it is the Creation of fundry forts of Land Anima Is, divided into male and fe- male 5 and the number fix is made up of male and female ^ for two into three is fix; hence the Pythagoreans call this number r*V°f Matrimony, adding more., that they did it in reference to the Crea- tion of the world , fet down by Mofes : This number alfo in the fame fort that the number five, is a fit Emblem of Pro- creation ; for fix into fix makes thirty fix. Here is fomething alfo that refpetts man, particularly the choiceft refill t of 'this fix dayes 56 The Holy Guide. LlB.2, dayes labour . The number of the Bru- tifh Nature was five. But here is an unite fuperadded in man 5 reafon reaclieth out to the knowledge o f a God, and one ad- ded to five makes fix. But now for the reference that fix bears to the whole Creation, that the Tytbagore- ansznd Rofie Crucians, did conceive it was fignificanttherecf, appears by the Titles they have given it,forthey call ic A/*?$ ? a>- cts vwtUi *£k[sq>v Ki wherefore this number fets out the perfection of the world y and you knoiv that God in the clofcof all faw., that all that he made was very good h then again the world is ' Ahpvy a) eJfA®-AM^/".&.i ? 4rw/»/r :) thatis,it confifts of an LiB.2. iheHoly Cmde 57 an Aftivc and Paffive principle , the one brought down in o the other, from the world of Life} and the Senary is made by drawing of the firft Mafculine Number into the fir ft Feminine, for three into two is fix. 2. Thus youfee continuedly that the property of the number fets off the na- ture of the work of every day, according to thofe myfteries that the Pythagoreans haveobferved in them ; and befidesthis, that the numbers have ordinarily got names anfwerable to each dayes work, which as I have often intimated, is a very high probability, that the Rofie Crucians had an Infallible Guids , referring to Mofes his text \ fix is a number of perfeftion,be- caufe it is the moll perfect in nature , in the whole cotirfe of numbers, from one to ten, and it alone isfoperfeft, that in the Co) lccYionof its parts itrefults the fame, nothing wanting nor abounding 5 for if the parts thereof, viz the middle, the third and ninth part * which are three, two 3 one, be gathered together, they per- fectly fill up the whole body of fix. Now this perfe&ion all the other num- bers wantihence by the Rofie Crucians it is faid to be altogether applyed to generati- on and marriage, and is called the bal- lance oftheworldjforthe world is made of the 5 8 The Holy Guide. LlB. 2- the number fix; neither doth it abound Or is defective; hence that i?, becaufe the world was finifhed by God the fixth day; for the fixth day God f aw all the things which he had made , and behold they were exceeding good , and the evening and morning were the fxt natural day % Therefore the Heaven, and the Earth, and ail the Hoafts thereof were finifhed;it is alfo called the number of man, becaufe the fixt d?y man was Created; and it is alfo the number of our redemption; whence there is a great aftinitybetwixtthe number fix and the CrolTe, Labour and fervitude : hence it is in the Law com manded , that in fix dayes the work is tc be done,fix dayes Manna is to be gather- ed, fix years the ground was to be fowen arid that the Hebrew fervant mould fcrvi his matter lix years; fix dayes the Glor of the Lord appeared upon Mount Sinai covering it with a cloud;the Cherubim ha fix wings. 9. And there are fix Circles in the Fir nvament, Aitick,Antartick,two Tropicks Equinoctial and Eccliptick; fix Wanderin Planets, "h , 'U, cT, ? > S > r. runnin through the Latitude of the Zodiack on boih fides the Ecliptick; there are in fubftantial qualities in the Elements, viz iharpnefs, thinnefs, motion, and the con trar LiB.^ The Holy Guide. * 59 trary to the e,dulnefs,thick*efs,reftj there are lix differences of poliuon, upwards, downwards, before, behind, on the right fide, on the left fide . There are iix natu- ral offices, without which nothing can be, viz. Magnitude, Colour, Figure, interval, Standing,Viotion. Alfo a folid figure of a four fquare thing hath fix Superficies ^ there are fix Tones of all Harmony, viz. five Tones and two half Tones , which make one Tone,which is the fixt : and the Name of God in the exemplary world are written with fix Letters oni^ and ITDJ^i and fix orders of Angels or Me(- fengers in the intelligible world will not obey the call of Inferioiirs , becaufethey are notfent : and there are fix degrees of men in the leffer, the Intellect, Memory, Senfe, Motion,Life, EfTence. And fix De- vils in the infernal world, which are the ! Authors of all Calamity, Arteus^ Magriefi- j ( wflrmenus,LicW)Nicon, Mini$n. The ligns to diftinguifh, whether the spirit be good or evil, are the fame by which we diftm- guifh whether a man or a tree be good or evil:namely Actions and Fruitjand wick- ed men cannot converfe with Angels : As For Example, a Quaker or a Presbyterian contrived a number in >ilver , and could often converfe with an Angel, as they cal- led it, at Fill Fens Furnace in Lancajhir^ for H there 60 lhe Holy Grids. Lie. 2 there chey lived, although not there knocked one at the door, he thought not of his familiar Devil Ifup- pofe, but opened the door, at which en- tred a man in blac\ clothes, and after fa liga- tion, faid, hemuftgo with him ; at this the Quaker was afraid ; undone of his fons run out to call neighbbiirs 5 the reftcryed, and the woman alio; fo one of the chil* drenfaid, OJefus, mother this man has feet like a Cow ; and the woman calling her eyes upon him, bleffed her , and faid, fweet Husband forfake thefe fool ifh fan- cies of Quaking ; Immediately at the word Went out of her mouth, for all his firiving, thii Monfter carried him away, and top of the houfe alfoy to the aslonijhment of all their neighbours^ who by this time were come to fave the man, but he was gone before, and never heard of after. 4. This may forewarn ungodly Saints the medling with the Sacred things writ- ten in this Book; for the Devil may appear to you like an Angel of Light 5 wherefore you are commanded in Scripture to judge ©f j liB. 2. The tiol) Guide. 6 1 cf the Spirits by their Do&rine, and not of the Do&rine by the Spirits $ for mira^ cles, our Saviour hath forbidden us to rule our faith by them, Mat. 24. 24. and Saint Fdul faith, Gidat.%. Though an Angel from Heaven preach to you otherwise, &c. let him be accurfed > wherefore it is plain, that we are not to judge whether theDottrine be true or no by the Spirit , but whether the Spirit be good or no by the Do&rine: Co likewife i Job .4. 1 . Believe Hot every Spirit: for falfeFrophets are gone out into the worldly. 2. Hereby jhall yekpow the Spirit of God, v. 3. Every Spirit that confeffeth not that Jefus Chriji U come in the flejh-y is not of God\ And Xhkii the Spirit of Antkhrift^ v. 1%. IVhofo- tver confeffeth that Jefus Chrift U the Son of God} in him dwelleth God, and he in God. 5. The knowledge therefore wc have ?f good and evil Spirits, cometh not by rifionof an Ahgel that may teach it, nor Dy a miracle that may feem to confirm it : Dut by conformity of do&rine with this foticleand Fundamental point of Chri- ftian Faith , which alfo Saint Paul faith is :he fole Foundation , that Jefus Chriji k iinteiktbe flsfb, i Cor. 3. 11. 6. For wifdome and knowledge iri j Philofojphy, the Law and Divinity, they engraved the nams of the Angd of t hs 62 The Holy Guide. L1B.2 day Planec and hour, with the mans name at length, and the numbers attribu* ted unto each Letter , and he it is faid re- ceivech vertue from an Angel that ap- pears like a man riding on a Peacock, ha- ving Eagles feet, and on his head a Crefty in his right hand he holds fire , and in his left a cock. And now you know how to try a Spi- rit ; but fome deny the appearing of Spi- rits , and that there are any good or bad ; but we (hall prove that there are, and the difference of Spirits in the third Book 5 to which we will add fome Rules to cure thofe that are poflefled and difeafed. Ont main defign to make men happy by Knowledge, long Life, Health, Youth. Riches, Wifdom, and Vertue, and how t< alter, change, cureand amend all difeafei in young or old, with the art of repairing Kofie Crucian Medicines, and times to ad minifter them , and their vertues anc ufes. CHAR LiB.a, The Holy Guide. 63 CHAP. IX. The fHutnber of Venue. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.^.16.17. 18.19.20.21. Ihefignificatlon of the Nmt - her 7. 22. 23. 24.25.26. And that 7. is a fit SymMe of the Sabbath or Reft of God. 1. T~He Hebdomad or Septenary is a fit 1 Symbole of God, as he is confide- nce! having finifhed thefe fix dayes Crea- tion ; for then, as this Holy Guide inti- mates, he creates nothing further, and therefore his condition is then very fitly fet out by the number 7. All numbers within the Decadent caft into the Ranks, is Plato obferves, oi (Av yw£ Kidneys : there alfo feven principal parts of the body, the Head, the Bread, the Hands, theFeet,and the privy Members: it is manifeft con- cerning breath, and meat, that without drawing of the breath, the life doth en- dureabove feven hours, and they that are ftarved ill prifon by blood-thirrty Credi- tors, orotherwife with famine, live not above feven dayes. The veines and arte- ries are moved by feven. ! 5. All judgements in difeafes are rriadt with greater manifeftation upon the fe- venth day, being called critical or judici- al 1 ; alfo of {c\tn portions, God create! the foul, the foul receives the body by fe- ven degrees j all differences of voyce« proceed to the feventh degree ; aftei which •LiB.i. The Holy Guide. 67 which there is the fame refolution : A- gain, there are feven modulations of voy- ces, Ditonus,femi-Ditonus , DiatefTaron, Diapente, with a Tone Diapente, with a half Tone, and Diapafon. 6. Thereisalfoin Celeftials a moft po- tent power of the number 7. for feeing there arc four corners of Heaven diame- trically looking jone towards the other; which indeed is accounted a moft full and powerful Afpeft, and coniifts of the num- ber feven,forit is made from thefeventh fign, and makes a croffe the moft power- full figure of all j but this you muft not; be ignorant of, that the number feven hath a great communion with the CrofTej by the fame Radiation and number the Solfticeis diftant from Winter, and the Equinoftium from the Summer j all which are done by feven figns ; there are alfoy circles in the Heavens according to the Axel-tree •, there arc feven Stars about the Artick pole, greater and lefTer, called Charles Waine : alfo feven Scars called the Pleiades,and Cewtn Planets,and the Moon difpenfeth the influence Spiritual and Natural, gives the light of feven to us ; for in 28 (he runs her appointed courfe-, which number of dayes the number fe- ven, with its feven termes, viz,, from one to feven, doth make and fill up as much as the ^8 The Holy Guid*. LlE.2? the feveral numbers, by adding to the Antecedents, and makes Four times fovea dayes, in which the Moon runs through, and about the Longitude and Latitude of the Zodiack by meafuring, and meafu- ring, and meafuring again ; with the like feven of dayes it difpeufech its light, by changing it. .7. r;or the firft feven dayes unto the middle as it were of the divided world, it increafeth; the fecond feven dayes ic fills it whole Orb with light; the hird by decretion,ic again is contracted into a divided Orb ; but after 28 dayes it is re- newed with the laft diminution Qf its light; and by the fame feven of dayes it difpofeth flux and influx of Waters j for in the firft feven of theincreafe of the Moort it is by little leffened ; in the fecond |by degrees encreafed; but the third is like to the firft, and the fourth doth the fame as the fecond. 8. And alfo feven is applyed, to which afcending from the lower in the feventh Planet, which betokens reft, to which the feventh day is afcribed,which fignifies the feven thoufand, wherein (as Saint John witnefTcth) the Dragon, which is the De- vil, being bound, men fhalibe quiet, and lead a peacable life: Moreover, the Rofie Crucians call feyen the number of Virginia LiB.2. *t>e Holy uuiae 09 ty, becaufe the firft is that which is nei- ther generated , or generates , neither can it be divided into two equal parts, fo as to be generated of anqther number repeated, or being doubled, to bring forth another number of it felf, which is c'ontained within the bounds of the num- ber, ten, which is manifeftly the firft bound of the numbers j and therefore they dedicated the number feven to ?al- 9, It hath alfo in Religion mod potent fignes of itsefteem, and it is called the number of an Oath* hence amongft the H^mmofwear, is called Septenary, to yroteft by feven. Abrabam y vfhei\ he made a Covenant with Abtmdech y appointed fe- ven Ewe-lambs for a Teitimony ; it is called the number of bleflednefs, or of Reft, viz. in fouj and body. The feventh day the Creator refted from his work, as I fliewed you above ; wherefore this day was by Mefes called the Sabbath, or the day of Reft : hence it was that Chrift re- fted the feventh day in the Grave. 10 Befides, it is mod convenient in Pu- rification , whence Afukius faith, And I put my felf forthwith into the Bath ofthe Sea to be purified, and put my head fe- ven times under the Waves, and the le- prous perfbn is eleanfed, being fprinkled feven ;o The Holy Guide, LiB.a. feven times with the blood of a Sparrow ; and Elnab faid to a-feprous perfon,(j0, and ypajb thy felf feven times in Jordan, and thy flejh (ball be made whole : And he wajhed feveri times and was eleanfed 5 feven is a number of Repentance and Remiffion, and feven years Repentance was ordain- ed for fin, according to the opinion of the Wife-man, faying. And upon every finner feven- fold. 11. And alfo the feventh yeare there were granted Remilfions of all debts and trefpafies, in full teftimony of Love and fulfilling of the Law. And Chrift with fe- ven Petitions finifhed hisfpeechof ourfa- tisfa&ion; and at the end of feven yeares every Apprentice doth challenge liberty to himfeifj feven is fuitable to Divine praifes, and David faid, feven times a day do I praife thee, becaule of thy righ- teous judgements; it is moreover called the number of ftevenge,as Cain (hall be re- venged feven-fold. 1?. The number 7. engraven by Art in Silver, will produce to your light a man leaning on a ftaffe, having a bird on his head, and a flcu riming tree before him; and this is made for travellers againft wea- rineflc *, the number feven in Chriftal by Art engraven, brings to you a woman cor- nuted, riding on a Bull 5 with feven heads, hold- L i B. 3. The Holy Guide. J I holding in her right hand a Dart, and hi her left a Looking- glafle$ they will come to you in white and green, and grant you the love of any woman you (hall nomi- nate. 13. And feven is defcribed to the Ho- ly Ghoft,who is feven- fold, according to his gifts, viz. the Spirit of Wifdomeand Underftanding,the Spirit of Council and Strength, the Spirit of Knowledge and Holinefs,andthe Spirit of the Fear of the Lord, which is the 7 eysofGod; there are feven Mefiengers or Angels that wait the will of God, and feven Lamps burn be- fore the Throne of God, 8c feven Golden Candlefticks, and in the middle was one like the Son of God j and he had in his right hand feven Stars; there are feven Angels in the prefence of God, that ftand before him, and feven Spirits before the Throne 5 and there are {even Trumpets, I mean feven Angels, that flood before the Throne of God. A Lamb had feven horns and feven eyes, and a book was opened wit h feven feals. And when the feven feals was opened, there was made lilence in Heaven 5 byfe- ^ven Julius Ctfar did bind and repell evil fpirits, as you read in Lucan. 7 2 The Holy Guide. L VB-a J will now call you up by a true name, *Jbe Stygian dogs\ 1 in the light fupreme Will leave and follow yow-, alfo through grave. From all the urnes in death I will you fave. Ihe number [even unto the Gods willjhew, To whom taddrejje Xhyfelf in other hew Ihou wafi woiit with wan form and without grace, Andtheeforbidto change Erebus his face. 14. And alfo of all clean beafts, feven were brought into the Ark, and of Fowls feven; and after feven dayes the Lord rained upoii the earth, and upon the fe- venth day the Fountains of the deep were broken up, and the waters covered the earth; and Abraham gave Abimelech feveri Ewe-lambs; and licoh ferved feven years for Leah, and feven more for Rachel ; and feven dayes the people bewailed the death of Iacob. 15. And you read of feven Kine, and feveuEaresof Corn, fevenyears of plen- ty, and feven yeares of fcarcuy; and in numbers feven Calves were offered on thefeventh day 5 and Balaam ereftld fe- veri Altars; feven dayes Mary the fitter of Aaron went forth leprous out of the Camp; and in lojhua feven Priefts carried the Ark of the Covenant before theHofk ft- Li B . 2 . The Holy Guide. 7 3 fevcn dayes they went round the Cities; and feven Trumpets werecarried by the feven Priefls \ and the feventh day, the fcven Priefls founded their Trumpets. j 6. And Abejfa reigned in Ifrael feven years 5 Savrjtn kept his Nuptial fcven dayes, and the feventh day he put forth a riddle to his Wife 5 he was bound with fe- ven new Cords, and feven Withs* and feven Locks of his head were (haven off; feven years the Children of Ifrael were bppreffed by the King of Maden. 17. And E//#prayed feven times $ and at the feventh time,behold a little cloud : feven dayes the Children of J/r^/pitched over againft the A$yrian$ y and the feventh day they joyned Battel; and feven times the Chilcteneefed that was raifed by Eti- Jka : feven Gifts of the Holy Ghoft; fe- ven Petitions in the Lords Prayes : feven Words of Cbrifl upon the Crcjfe: feven words of the Virgin Mary. 18. Moreover this Number hath much power, as in natural, fo in facred,fpirituai, ceremonial, and myfterious : feven hours were Adam and Eve in Taradife ; and there were feven men foretold by an Angel, be- fore they were born, viz. lfmael> Ifaac, Sattopfcn, Jeremiah, John Baftift, James the Brother of our Lord, & our Saviour Jefm Chrifi: And in the Original world, they writ* 74 T ^ Hdfy Guide. LiB.a. writs the Name of God with fevea let- ters, Ararita. And in the Intelligible world there are feven Angels that ftand in theprefenceof God, Zafhiel^Zadkjl^ Ca- mad, Raphael, Hanael, Michael^ Gabriel. In the Elementary World, there are feven Birds, that are ufed in calling or Angels, viz the Lapwing, the Eagle, the Vulture, the Swan, the Dove, the Stork, theOwl: and feven Fifhes, viz. the Sea-Cat, the Mullet, Thimallus, the Sea-Calf, the Pike, the Dolphin, the Thurle- fifli 5 and feven Animals, the Goat, the Cat, the Ape, the Mole,the Heart,the Woolf,the Lyon : and feven Metals, Lead, Tin, Iron, Gold Gop- per,Quick-(ilver,Silver : and feven Stones, the Onyx, theSaphir, the Diamond, the Carbuncle, theEmrald, the Achates, the Chryftal. 19. This number feven engraven in Silver Will bring Gabriel to you, and he will bring you a Genius fuitable to your felf in nature, number and name, and he will appear like a man cloathed in comely apparel , or like a man and woman fitting at a Table playing, and this giveth mirth , riches, and the love of women. 20. Again, the Number feven is of two kinds,theoneis, * hl°< JW«T©- IJVV*?' The other, n UCjh. The Septenary with- in L: B. 3 . 1 he Holy Guide. '? 7 $ in the Decade is meerly (even unites s the other is a feventh number, beginning at an unite ^ and holding on in a continual Geometrical proportion till you have gone through feven proportional Terms ; for the feventh Term , there is this Septe- nary of the fecond kind , whofe Nature Tlato fully exprefles in thefe words 3 'Atti y*s o$ri novels®- evvTt&faiv©- 'c* JV- whtLGiQis w ttiKditrxoii n cvylheo$ dva,Kby* \i&TiM$*cidt4. Twj (M a.<7ay.cLT\i Kctltt Trivial* i. e. ii. For alwayes beginning from an unite, and holding on in double or triple, or what proportion you will , the feventh number of this rank is both fquare and cube, comprehending both kinds, as well the Corporeal as Incorporeal fubftance^ the incorporeal according to the Superfi- cies which the fquares exhibite, but the corporeal according to the folic! DinVentt- ons which are fetout by the Cubes. 22. As for example, 64. or 7, 2. 9. thefe are numbers that a rife after this manner : each of them area feventh from an unite, the one arifing from double proportion, the other from Triples arid if the pro- 1 portion 7 6 The Holy Guide. Lib. 2 portion were quadruple, quintuple,or any elfe,there isthefame reafon. Some other fevench number would arife, which would prove of the fame Nature with thefe,they would prove both Cubes andfquares,that is,Corporeal and Incorporeal ; for fuch is 64. either made by multiplying eight in- to eight , and fo itisafquare, orelfeby multiplying four cubically, for four times four times four is again fixty four, but then io is a Cube. And 6)7. 9. is made either by fquaring of 27. or Cubically multiplying of nine, for either way will 729. be made: and fo is both Cube and fquare corporeal and incorporeal : where- by is intimated, that the world (hall be re* duced in the feventh day^toa meer fpiri- tual con(iftency,toan incorporeal condi- tion ; but there (hall be a cohabitation of the fpirit with flefli, in a Myftical or Moral fenfe, and that God will pitch his Tent amongftus. Then (hall be fettled ever- lafting righteoufnefs, and rooted in the Earth, fo long as mankind (hall inhabit upon the face thereof. 23. And this truth of the Reign of Righteoufnefs in this feven thoufand years isftill more clearly fet out to us in the Septenary within ten, tw wtZs tear J®- S£ and how they ap- pear. i. T Am not angry at theFanatick dif- Jl poikionsof men, that raile againft my Writings, viz. Francis O$born> Author of Advice to a Sony and Elias Ajhmole, Efq; that made publick my imperfeft Copy ; and fome others I pky 3 being the worm- eaten memorials of defaced Hiftories &c. 2. Thefe ignorantly wonder what thofe Officious Spirits fhould be I fo much talk of in my book,called the Familiar Spirit. that fo willingly appeare, and after my dire- ctions^ offer themfelves to confociate with a man. 3. O my enemies/ whom I pity, more thendifpife, I (hall tell you lovingly, as I fpeak to the capacities of people j They are Angels uncapable of incorporation into humane bodies and fouls of thede- 1 4 ccafed 8r The Holy G*?de. L1B.2 ceafed, that have affinity with mortality and humane frailty* and thefe will not appear to you at all times, but every firft, third, fifth, feventh, ornineth yeare, they will come, and for ever accompany you in a fortunate Jelefme, 4, And eight will bring to you a G eni- us you (hall know in its proper place : And Orpheus was ufed to befeech Divine Jufhce by eight, and he ufually fwareby eight Deities, viz. Fire, Water, Earth, the Heaven, Moon, Sun, Planets, the Night : and ^irg*/ fpeaking of Ma gick^ faith, 1 many times with eight have Maeris fpy'd Chang'd to a PVolfe, and in the Woods to bide : From Sepulchres would foules departed charm, And come beare ftanding from anothers Farm. 5 . The Jiofie Crucians call eight the num- ber of Juftice and Fulneffe : firft, becaufe itisfirft of all divided into numbers e- qualiy even,2>/£. into four, and that divi- iion is by the fame reafon made into two times two, viz. two times t\vo twice ; and by reafon of this equality of Divifion, ic tooktoitfelfthe nameof Jufticcj butthe other received the name, viz, of Fulnefs* by EiB.2. The Holy Guide. 83 by reafon of the Contexture of the corpo- real folidity, fince the firft makes a foiid body. There are eight only viftble Spheres cf the Heavens*, alfo by it the propercy of corporeal matter is fignified, which lyrius comprehended in eight of the Sea -fangs : this is alfo called the Covenant, or Cir- cumcifion, which was commanded to be aone by the Jew? the 8tb day. 6. By eight it is faid, a Gentleman in the Kings Army at Edge- hill battel (hewed tr.e effe&s of Spirits, viz. the appearance of armed men righting and encountring one againft another in the skie, and hun- dreds faw thefe things befides him- felf. 7. And through eight Tfagarith (hewed the Citizens of krufalent for forty dayes, or five times eight together 3 horfmen run- ning in the aire in cloth of Gold, and ar- med with Lances, like a band of fouldiers, and troops of horfmen in array, encoun- tring and running one againit another, vith making of fhields, and multitudes of pkes, and drawing of fwords, and cafting oidarts, and glittering of golden orna- ments, and harnefs of all forts : and thus he->redi&ed the great (laughter of nolefs thd 80000 made by Antiochus : this is al- fo recorded in the fecond of Macchabees^ ^h.5 8. And 84 The Holy Guide. LlB.2. 8. And in eight was feen a Sea-fight o- ver Sydmoutb in Devonjhire y by Caleb Perkin- fott) a Captain of a Ship and his company ; and he predicted a Sea-fight, which hap- pened betwixt us and the Hollanders. g. Eight is an evil number, and alwaies fignifies difeafes, or death ; and in the old Law there were eight Ornament of the Prieft, viz. a Breaft-plate, a Coat, a Girdle, a Mytre, a Robe, an Ephod, a Girdle of an Ephod, a Golden Plate : hi- ther belongs the number to Eternity, aid the end of the World., becaufe it follo^es the number feven, which is the myneryof time. 10. By eight Hammel caufed a Spirit, called JLckerkeH) to appear alwaies in the fliape of a hand, and haunt thofe that troubled him, pulling down travellers off their horfes , and overturning carri- ages. 1 1 . They fay this number was dedicatee to Dionyfiu*, becaufe he was born the 8th. monethj in everlafting memory whereof Naxos the lfland was dedicated to hin, which obtained this prerogative, tiat onelythc women of Naxos mould faely bring forth in the- eighth moneth,and their children mould live; where?* the children of the eighth moneth mother Nations die, and their mother then fringe LiB.s. The Hoi) Guide. 8 5 bringing forth are in manifeft dan- § er - 12. By^ight artificially chara&redina proper i\xb)tdi 9 Apollonius Tyaneus told the Epbefians of an old man that was a Spe- ctre, and how the walking Plague was by his means in the ^ity here and there ; whereupon they ftoned the fhape 5 and af- ter a while they uncovered the heap ; whereupon appeared the fhape of a great black dog, as big as any Lion ; Yet I know feme able Araftsm England, that will not believe but this is Melancholy and fraud of a Prieft : But the learned Grotius, a man far from all levity znd vain credulity, is fo fecure ofche truth of Jyanem his Mira- cles, and Telefmaticall Numbers, that he does not ftick to terme rum impudent that has the face to deny them. 13. In the Infernall world there are 8 rewards of the damned, Prifon, Death, Judgement, the wrath of God, Drunken- nefs, Indignation, Tribulation, Anguiih 5 and eight kinds of bleffed men in the Jef- fer world, the Poor in fpirit, the Merciful, the Meek, the Viourners, they that hunger and thirft after Righteoufw efs, the Peace- makers, they which are perfecuted for Righteoufnefle fake : eight particular qualities in the Elementary world, the heat of the Fire, the moiftnefle of the Air,- the 86 The Holy Guide. LlB.2. the coldnefs of the Water, the drineffe of the Ear^h, the drinefs of the Fire,the heat of the Aire, the coldnefs of the Earth, t he moiftnefs of the Water; and eight rewards of theBleffed; Inheritance, Incorrupision, Power, Victory, the Viiion of God,Gracc, a Kingdome, Joy; and the Name of God in the Original word is written fometimes with eight letters, Eloha Vadaatb nV?** rtjm Iehovab Vedaatb r^Tt* 1 Fl^m and thefe Qneftions are refolved by eight. 14. The number eight Jelefmntically en. graved, as others were in an Onyx ftone, they fay rendreth a man powerful in good and evil,fothat he (hall be feared of all ; andwhofoever carrieth it, they give him the power of charming difeafes, and he (hall terrine men by his looks when he is angry: this makes alfo a man bold and fortunate in Wars: by this number ap- pears a Spirit like a man riding upon a Li- on, having in his right hand a naked fword : and by. this number they preferve goods from ftealing, and caufe Thieves to bring again what they have taken away; thishelpethalldifeafesin the fecrets and bowels : by this number rhcy know when she party will die that is lick. CHAP. , LiB.s. The Holy Guide. 87 CHAP. XI. 'The u^Qimber of chan- ging ^Bodies. Of the fignification of the number nines how tha 1 by nine Julius C asfa r called up Spirits, and did what he fie a fed: how Ga Heron by nine went invifible, and bad the focietyofa familiar Genius. 11. A Nd nine is a powerful number iri A all things : Julius Cafar made this number in Gold lelefmatically in the hour by Artj and carried with him in his march to the River Rubicon, which divides Gallia Citerior from Italy, and upon the Banks fide his Army faw appear at his com- mand., a Genius, like a proper man, play- ing on a Reed 5 the ftrangenefs of his a&ions,as well as the pleafantnefs of his mufick, had drawu feveral of theShep-^ herds unto hini 3 as alfo many of the Soul- diers j amongft whom were fome Trum- peters, which this Triton (if I may fo call him ) or Sea- god, well obferving, nimbly fnatches away one of the Trumpets out of i^heir hands, leaps forthwith into the Ri^ ver. 88 The Holy Guide. L1B.2, ver, and founding to horfe , with that ftrength and violence > that he Teemed to rend the heavens, and made the aire ring again with the mighty forciblenefs of the blaft : in this manner he pafled over to the other fide of the River : whereupon Ctfar taking the Omen, leaves off all further di- fputewith himfelf, carries over his army, enters Italy y fecureof fuccefs, from the fo manifeft tokens of the favour of the gods. The number nine is dedicated to the Mu* fes,by the help of the order of the celefti* al fpheres,and divine Spirits. 2. And there are nine Spheres; andac. cording to thefe there are nine Mufes^/z. Galiope, Vratiia, Volymnia, Terpfichore, Clio, Melpomene, Erato, Euterpe and Thalia',\vhich nine Mufes indeed are appropriated to the nineSpheres,fothat the rirft refembles the fupreme fphere, which they call Frimum Mobile ', and fo defcending by degrees, ac cording to the written order, unto the laft, which refembles the Sphere of the Moon. 3 So the Name of GOD in the Origi- nal Word, is fometimes written with nine letters, mssaymn'' Jehovah Saboatb 9 FaOIM riBOP • and there are in the intel- ligible World nine Quire of Angels, SeraM ph\m,Cherubin^ Thrones, Tcminations, Tow-\ i erij i Li B.2. The Holy Guide. 89 ers, Vertues, principalities i Arch-angels, An- gels ; and nine Angel? ruling the Heavens, Metattron* Ophaniel, Zaph\iel, Zadkjel, Ca- tnael, Raphael, Haniel, Michael, Gabriel. In the Celeftial World Calliope is appropriate to the Frivnum Mobiles Vrania to the Starry Heaven, Folymnia to Saturne; Terpfcchore to Jupiter s\Clio to Mars-, Melpomene to the Sun, Erato to Venus, Euterpe to Mercury, Thalia to the Moon : and they engrave nine upon a Saphir , Emrald , Carbuncle^ Beril , #»/'*, Chrifolite, Jajper, or 7tf/w$ : but properly and moft effectually to be refoived of their Queftions, or to obtain their defires, they Tcfmatically in an hour engrave it in Sar- dis or Silver 3 and this will make a man (they fay) go invifible, as Caleron, Alexan- ders brother '-in-law fometime did, when he lay with his brothers Concubine as of- ten as himfelf ; This number obtaineth the love of women. 4. And the nineth houre our Saviour breathed out his Spirit \ and in nine dayes the Ancients buried their dead; and nine years Minos received Lawes from Iupiter, as you may read in my Book, called The Idea of the Law. and nine was moft efpecially taken notice of by Homer, when Lawes were to be given, or anfwers were to be given, or the fvvord was like to rage ; the Ajirologers and Geomancers alfo obferve the num- go The Holy Guide. Lf B.3« number nine in the ages of men,no other- wife then they do of feven,which they call a Climafterical year; which are eminent for fome remarkable change: yet fomctimes it fignifies imperfettnefs and uncompleat- nefs,becaufe it doth not attain to the per- fection of the number ten, but is lefs by one 3 without which it is deficient, as Au- ftin interprets it of the ten Lepers -, nei- ther is the longitude of nine Cubits of 0g y King othafan, who is a type of the Devil, without a Myfterie ; and there are nine fenfes inward and outward together in man, viz. Memory, Cogitative, Imaginative) Common fenfe; Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Ta- tting, Touching : and nine orders of Devils in Sheol, viz. Falfe Spirits of Lying,Vefels of Iniquity, Avengers of Wickgdnefs, Iuglers, or Lylians, Airy Towers, Furies, [owing Mifcbiefy Sifters, or Tryers, Tempters, or Infnarers. I aime at the Celeftial Glory ; Below the Moon alTs Tranfitory. 15. The number nine, the number of the Planet, day of the week. Angel of the day, and hour engraven in Gold, will (they fay)bring down to you an Angel like a King crowned, fitting in a Chair, having a Ra- ven in hisbofome, and under his fret a Globe ; he wears Saffron-colour'd clothes 3 and I LiB.2. ibe Holy Guide. 91 /$ & he, they report,gives vertue to the num- ber 8c makes the bearer of it invincible & honorable, &. helps to bring their bufinefs to a good end, and to drive away vaine Dreams. This number prevails againft Feavers and the Plague, and they made it in a Balanitis-ftom, or a Jtubie : This number caufeth long life and health : by this Number Vlato fo ordered himfelf,that he could by it caufe Nature to end his dayesat his pleafure, and by departing upon the fame 81 years after his Birth, to fulfill of purpofe nine times nine, the moft perfect Number. CHAP, 9 1 the Holy Guide. Lib.* CHAP. XII. The 3\(jtmberof Me- dicines. Of the figmfication of the number ten , how by this Number ten , Socrates in a Monitory Vifwnhada Swan in his tap>and of Plato's birth and education. j i . *T* He Number ten is a Number of ho- JL nour and preferment, and Pythago- ras had honour by it. And Plato by this Number had the knowledge of the more facred Viyfteriesof God, and the ftateof the foul of man in this world , and that other defervedly got to himfelf the title of Divine, o ©el©- TiKuTav. 2. But as for Miracles , I know none he did, though fomething highly miraculous happened,if that Fame at Athens was true, that SfeufippUsClearchuS) and Anaxilides re- port to have been , concerning his Birth, which is, that Arifto y his reputed Father, when he would forcibly have had to do with Peritione^ (he being indeed exceeding fair and beautiful , fell fhort of his pur-i pofe,and furceafing from his attempr,thac he LlB.2» The Holy Guide- 93 hefaw ApaUo in a Vihon , and fo abftain'd from medling with his Wife, till (he brought forth herfon Ariftocles, who after wascalledP/*t0. 3. But that is far more credible, which is reported concerning the commending of him to his Tutor Socrates, who the day before he came, dreamed that he had a young Swan in his Lap , which putting forth apace of afudden , flew up into the Air, and fung (very fweetly * wherefore the next day, when Tlato wasbroughtto him by his Father, t«7^, \muv\iv tqv^uv^ he prefently faid , this is the Bird, and fo willingly received him for his Pupil. 4. Eut his acquaintance with the Holy Guide , as it is more credible in it felf, fo I havealfo better proof: As Ariflobulus the Jew in Clemens Alexandrians- Saint Am- brose, Hermipfns in Jofephus againft Appions : And \z&\y,NutncnnM the Flatonift, who in- genioufly confeffes , T/ y&s <%t TXharav n Ma>w 'hTJMi£av ; That is Tlato, but Mofes in Greek,, as 1 haveelfewhere in my Book called, The Idea of the Law, alledged a- mongft Law-givers; the Number ten is called, every Number,Gompleat,ngnify- ing the full courfc of life ; for beyond that we cannot number within it felf, or explain them by it felf, and its own by- multiplying them, K 2 Where- q, 4 The Holy Guide. L 1 B.2 . Wherefore it is accounted to be of a manifold Religion and Power, and is ap- plied to the purging of fouls : Hence the Ancients called Ceremonies Denary, be- caufe they that were to be expected , and to offer Sacrifices were to abftain from iome certain things for ten dayes,whence amongft the Egyptians, it wasthecuftome for him that would (acritke to J ao (i.e.) Jabyto faft ten dayes before; which Apt" tarteftifiesof himfelf,faying, it was com- manded that I mould for thefpace often dayes refrain all meat, and be fading. 5. There are ten Sanguine parts of Man,che lYlenftrue, theSperm,the Plafma- tick fpirit 5 the Mafle, the Humours, the Or- ganical body, the Vegetative part , the Sensitive part , Reafon, a*ad the Minde ; There are alfo ten fimple Integral parts constituting a man, the Bone, the Carti- lage,Nfrve,Fibre,Ligament,^rteryjVein, Membrane, Flelh, Skin. There are alfo ten parts of which a Man coniifts intrin- fecally, the Spirit, the Brain, the Lungs, the Heari , the Liver, the Gall, the Spleen,the JCidnies, the Tefticle?,the Ma- trix. 6. There are ten Curtains in the Tem- ple,teu firings in the Pfaltery, ten mufical inftruments which with Pfalms werefung, the names whereof weseNeza^ on which their L l B .2 . The Holy Guide. 9 $ their Odes were fung : labium the fame as Organs, ' Mizmor on which thePfalms,SzVs on which the Canticles , Tebila on which Orations , Berach on which Benedictions, #W^ on which Praifes, Hodaiacn which thanks,^/r? on which the felicity orbliffe and happinefs of any one , Hallelujah on which the thepraifes of God only, and Contemplations: there were alfo ten fi- gures of Pfalms, a. a. &c. 7. And there were ten Singers, viz. Adam^Abrabam^Melchifedec^ Mofes, Afaph, Vavid^Sclomon^nd the three fohs ofCborah And the name of God in the original world is written with ten Letter, Crfrj* n^3Y EAo/ K*'£*°9: There are ten Com- mandements, and the tenth day after the Afcentionof Chrift, the Holy Ghoftcame down: There arc ten Names of God, 8. And the Number ten eaft in Gold was it, in which Jacob wreftling with the Angel all night overcame , and at the ri- ling of the Sun was bleffed, and called by the name of Ifrael. By,and in this Num- ber Jofbua overcame thirty one Kings,and by ten in a Carbuncle Vavid overcame K 3 Goliah. 96 The Holy Guide. LlB. 1 Goliah , and the Phiiiftin.es ; and in ten Vaniel efcaped the danger of the Lions. 9. There are ten lYJcflengers that carry the fouls down from God through the Heavens, Spheres, Stars, and Planets to the bodies of men , and thefe be their names, Ketber^ Heckmach , Binah, He fed, , Geburah) lipberetb> Nezah 9 Jod, Hefod, Mai- chutb > this Number is as circular as unity, becaufe being heaped together,ret urns in- to an unity, from whence it had its begin- ning j and it is the end and perfe&ion of all Numbers,and the beginning of tens as the Number ten flows into unity back again,from whence it proceeded *, fo every thing that is flowing, is returned back to that from which it had the beginning of its Flux, fo water returns to the Sea from whence it had its beginning ; the body returns to the earth from whence it was taken; time returns to eternity from whence it flowed ; the fpirit fhall return to God that gave it ; and laftly , every creature returns to nothing, from whence it was created, neither is it {imported, but by the Word of God, in whom all things are hid. . 10. By the Number ren Volomides an Abbot of Malego m Spain could tell al- moit at any diftance how the affairs of the world went, what confutations or trans- actions LiB.2. ihe Holy Guide. 97 a&ions there were in all the Nations of Chriftendome , from whence he got to himfelf the reputation of a very holy man , and a Rofie Crucian ; but other things came to pafle , no lelfe ftrange and miraculous, as that at the celebrating of the holy Eucharift s the Prieft fhould al- wayes want one of his round Wafers , which was fecretiy conveyed to this Prieft or Abbot, by the administration of Angels, he receiving into his mouth, eat it in the view of the people,to their great aftoniftiment , and high reverence of the Saint. 11. At the elevation of the Hoft , Pfl/o- mides 6eing near at hand , but yet a wall betwixt, that the wall was conceived to open, and to exhibitc Tolomides to the view of them intheChappel. And thus when hepleafed he would partake of the confecrated bread j when this Abbot came into the Chappel himfelf, upon fome fpe- cial day, that he would fet off the folem- nity of the day by fome notable arid con- fpicuous Miracle; for he would fome- times be lifted up above the ground three or four Cubits high , other ibmeumes bearing the Image of Chrift in his Armes, weeping favourly, he would make his hair to increafe to the length and largenefs, that it would con*e to his heels and cover K 4 rum 98 the Holy Guide. Lib. i him all over) and the Image of Chrift in his armes , which anon notwithftanding would fiirink up again to its ufual iize : And after this he called an Angel by ten in Gold Telefmatical engraven , fofhew the true Religion to him 5 and the Angei bid him turn Proteftant , in the beft fenfe of the Church of England-, and after- wards all his life he preached , and was created Bifhop in England , and preached to the Proteftants in France , and known well by the name of the Biftiop of Sfa- latta. 12. And all things with the Number ten, and by the Number ten make a round, taking their beginning from God,, and ending in him : God therefore the firft unity ,or one thing,before he commu- nicated himfelf to inferiours, diffufed himfelf into the firft of Numbers , viz,- the Number three, then into the Number ten , as into ten Idea's and meafures of making all Numbers 3 and all things,which the Hebrews call ten Attributes and blef- fed Souls, viz. Haloehy Hakades, Ofhanim, Aralim, Hafmallim , Seraphim, Mdachim, Elohim , Ben Elobim , Cherubim lfiim\ and ten Angels ruling, Meiratton, Jopbiel, Zafh- kjel,Zadkjel, Camael, Raphael, Haviel, Mi- chael, Gabriel, the foul of Mefliah : Ten Spirits-of theWorldthat rule the Spheres Jtefchiib. LiB.3. The Holy Guide. 99 Refcbithbagallalim, Maflotb, SMatbi,Zedf^ y Madim, Schemes , Noga y Ckocab^Levanab^Ho- lorn, Jefodoth : ten confccrated Animals, viz. a Dove, a Libard, a Dj agon^m Eagle, a Horfc , Lion, Man, Genital*, Bull, a Lamb: They account ten Divine names, for which there cannot b?. a further Num- ber. 13. Hence all tens have fome divine things in them,and in the Law are requi- red of God as his own , together with the firft fruits as the original of things, and beginning of Numbers , and every tench is the end given to him, who is the begin- ning and end of all things : and ten Or- ders of the Damned in Hell , viz. falfc gods,lying fpirits, {Villi am Lilly the King of Swedem Jngler y &c. VefTels of Iniquity, Tempters or Enfnarers, Sifters or Triers, Revengers of wickednefs, Furies the Se- minaries of Evil, Aery Powers, wicked fouls bearing Rule. All fpirits were created pure at fir ■/?, But by xb eir felf- will after were accurfl. 14. The Number ten, and the Letters and Numbers of Angels, &c. engraven in a Carbuncle, rendreth a man free .'from difeafes, and nuketh him in e long, rrefti, and beautiful, this heipeth ail difeafes in the IOO the Holy Guide. LlB.2. the Kidnies,it caufeth the party that bear- eth it to live fecure from Theeves, for no Thief can enter his houfe in the night, nor have power tocarry away a Sheep or Horfe,&c. if once ftept in the ground, he fhall not come out again until the party that owns the ground pleafes : and this Number you muft character or caft in Copper , and lay it under the gate in the earth , and in the ground on the Eaft fide of the place you wou'd have guarded, be it Houfe,Garden,or an Orchard,^. And its faid the Angel that gives vertue to this, appears like an old man leaning on a ftaffe, having in his hand a Sword, and he feems in black Cloaths. By this Number they know when to begin any work in this book. CHAP. LiB.2. The Holy Guide. 101 CHAP. X1H. The Slumber of prepa- rations of gold. Ofthefignification of the number i r. how by it wefyow the bodies of Devils, and their na- tural confHtutions : *pt»vtv s in Pherecydes Syrus; D^«, n^y, C=3W , r-vy^, ?— — PPM* tftfW« of Spirits haunting fields fid defolate places : of Theophilus Ful- wood, who had the continuall fociety of a Guardian Genius ; Of Plociiius apd O- lympius. * I. T5 Y ii Theophilus Fulwood, the Rofie I) Crucian >knew the Vetnones Metallic^ and Guardian Genh , who told him. That the bodies of Spirits were cold 5 &: indeed it (lands to very good reafon,that the bo- dies of Spirits being nothing but coagu- lated aire, fhould be cold, as well ascogu- lated watery which is fnow and Ice, and that it fhould be a more keen and pier- cing cold; it confifting of more; fubtill particles then thofe of water, and there- fore more fit toinlinuate, and more ac- curately and ftingingly to affect and touch 102 The Holy Guide. L\B-i touch thenerves. Hence we may alfodif- cover the folly of the opinion that makes the very ejjence of fpirits to be fire; for how unfit that would be to coagulate the aire, jsplaine at firft ; for it would rather melt anddiflblvethofe confiftencies, thencon- irringe them, and freeze them in a man- ner j but it is rather manifeft, that the ef- fence of Spirits is a fubfta'nce fpeciiically diftintt from all corporeal matter whatso- ever 5 but my intents is not to philofo- phize concerning the nature of Spirits. 2. Pherecydes Syr us the RofieCruci attend Maftcr of Pythagoras , by, eleven knew the Fauni and Sylvan'^ and Onocentauri , A kirn^of fpirits thac frequent the woods, and are of a dark colour; they caufea noifeand ftirinthofe defoiate places^and therefore he forewarns his fcholars to be- ware of their acquaintance. Hdic loca capripedes Satyros , Nymphafqus tetters fimtimi fingunt, & Faunos ejje loquuntur 5 ghtorurn NocJvago ttrepitu Lud^quejocanti Affirmant vulgo taciturna filentia rumpu 1. e. Thefe are the places where the Nymphs do won The Fauns and Satyrs with their cloven feet D YVhofe LiB.2. The Holy Guide 1 03 Whofe noife, and fhouts,and laughters loud do run, Through the frill aire, and wake the fi- lent night. 3. But the Jewes underftand by 11, and n^^a Shec-devil, an enemy to women in child-bed 3 whence it is, that they write on the walls of the room where the woman lyes in, nV7^ jpin mn cm** Adam^ Eve^ out of doors Lilith. And our Saviour Chrift in the 12th. of Mtft.4.3. ver. plainly allowes of this Do- c"trine,that evil fpirits have their haunts in. the fields and defarts, which Grotius ob- ferves to be the opinion of the Jewes, and that v^TV Vtmones have their names for that reafon, from HITE? Ager, the field; for if it were from TTO, it would be rather WW then Cl^ Shiddim then Shedhit* y as Grammatical Analogic requires. 4. The number u, as it exceeds the number ten, which is the number of the Commandements ; fo it falls fhort of the number twelve, which is of Grace and Perfection, therefore it is called the num- ber of lins,and the penitent. Hence in the Tabernacle there were commanded to be made 1 1 coats of hair,which is the habit of thofethat are penitent, and lament for their (ins j whence this number hath no com • 1 04 the Holy Guide. LiB.2, communion with Divine or Ccleftiall things, nor any attra&ion attending to rhings above* neither hath it any reward* but yet fometimes it receives a gracious favour from God, as he which was called the eleventh hour to the Vineyard of the Lord, received the fame reward as thofe who had born the burthen and heat of the day; and I never knew but one fpirit that ever appeared by this number that wa« a good fpirit ; and that IbeophilMFul- jpood had, as he gathered from certaine Monitory dreams and vifions, although other fpirits would fpeak to him , this would not, but yet he was forewarned as well of feveral dangers as vices ; that this fpirit difcove red himfelf to him after he had for a whole year together earneftly prayed to God to fend a good Angel to him; and he engraved n in filver for it^ to be the guide and governour of his life and a&ions,that he might not be deluded by evil fpirits 5. Adding alfo, that before and after prayer he ufed to fpend two or three hours in meditation and reading the Scri- ptures, diligently enquiring with himfelfj what Religion amongft thofc fo many controverted in the world, might be beft ; befeeching God that he would be plea- fed to direft him to it; and that he did not L* B,a. The Holy Guide. 105 not allow of their way, that at all adven- tures pray to God to confirm them ifi that opinion they have already pre- conceived, be it right or wrong. 6. That while he was thus bufie with himfelf, he light upon the Eook of Common-Prayer , and in it he found a paper, in which was written, Efifc&pacj Meliorated, is the be ft Religion j and that a good and holy man can offer up no grea- ter,nor more acceptable tacriiice to God, then the obligation of himfelf,hisfoul;and under it w us D.G.Bijkop of C. and therefore following the Bifhops Counfel , that he offered his foul to G©d. 7. And that after that, amongft many other Divine Dreams and Virions, he once in his fleep feemed to hear the voice of God faying to him, Iwillfave thy foul $ I am he that before appeared unto thee ; After- wards, that the Spirit every day would knock at the door about three or four a clock in the morning, though he rifing and opening the door could fee nobody, but that the Spirit periiited in this courfe, andunlefshc did rife, would thus rouze him up. 8. This trouble and boifteroufncfs made ' him begin to conceit that it was fome evil f^irit that thus haunted him 5 and there- fore he daily prayed earneftly to God , that \o6 the Holy Guide. LlB.2, that he would be pleafed to fend a good Angel to him, and often alfo fimg Pfalm?, having moft of them by heart. 9. YVherefore the Spirit afterward knoc- ked more gently at the door, and one day discovered himfelf to him waking, which was the rirft time that he was allured by his fenfes that it was he 5 for he often touched and ftirreda drinking-glafsthat flood in his chamber, which did not alit- le amaze him. 10. Two dayes after 5 when he entertain- ed a Gentleman of the Kings, a friend of his, at fupper with him, that this friend of his was much abafhed while he heard the Spirit thumping on the bench hard by him, and was ftrucken with fear •-, but he bid him be of good courage, there was no hurt toward ; and the better to affure him of it, told him the whole truth of the matter. 1 1 . Wherefore from that rime,faith Eu- genm Iheodaftus, he did affirm, that this Spirit was alwayes with him , and by fomefenfiblcfign did everadvertife him with things, as by ftriking his right ear, if he did any wayes amifs; if oiherwife, his left* if any body came to circumvent him, that his right ear was ftruckj but his left ear if a good man Sc to good endsaccoft- ed him*, if he was about coeator drink any Life.2. 1 he Holy Gtiicie. \oj /? anything that would hurt him, or in eli- ded or purpofed to himfelf to do any thing that would prove ill^ that he was prohibited by a fign; or if he delayed to follow his buiinefs, that he was quickened by a figw followed him. 12. When he began to praife Godih Pfalms, and to declare his marvelous a£b, that he was prefently raifed and ftrengthened with a fpiritual and fuper- natural power. 13. That he daily begg'd of God, that he would teach him his Will, his Law,and Ins truths and that he fet one day apart in the week for reading the Scripture and Meditation, with ringing of Pfalms, and that he did not ftir out of his houfe all that day; but that in his ordinary conver- fation he Was fufficiently merry, and of a cheerfull mind, and he cited that faying for it, Vidi fades fanficrum fat as $ but in his converting with ethers, if he had talk- ed vainly or indifcreetly, or had fome dayes together neglected his Devoti- ons, that he was forthwith admonifhed thereof by a dream, that he was alfo ad- inonidied to rife betimes in the mornings land that about four of the clock, a voice ould come to him while he was afleep, ying$ Who gets up firft to pray > 14.. He told Eugenia* alfo, how kt was L eftm ico The holy Guide. LIB. 7 often admonifhed to give almes,&: that the more charity he bellowed, the more pro- fperous he was $ and that on a time when his enemies fought afcer his life,and knew that he was to go by water, that his Fa- ther in a Dream brought two horfes to him, the one a white, the other a bay 5 and that therefore he bid his fervant hire him two horfes, and though he told him no- thing of the colours, that yet be brought him a white one and a bay one. 15. At another time, when he was in very great danger, and was newly gone to bed, he faid, that the Spirit would not let him alone till he had raifed him again m wherefore he watched and prayed all that night ; the next day after he efcaped the hands of his perfecutors in a wonder- full manner ; which being done, in his next fleep he heard a voice faying, now fing, §ui fedet in Lmihulo Altifpmi. \6.Eugemns asked him why he&ould notfpeak to the Spirit for the gaining of the more plain and familiar converfe with it *, he anfwered, that he once at- tempted it, but the Spirit took away the Number and Plate, and (truck it againft the door with that vehemency, as if he had intended to have beat it down 5 whereby he gathered his diflike of the matter. 17. But Ll B. 2. The Holy Guide. 109 17. But though the Spirit would not talk with him, as thofe that appear byo- ther Numbers, yet he could makeufeof his judgement in the reading of his books, and moderating his ft udies $ for if he took an ill book into his hands, and fell a rea- ding, the Spirit would ftrikeit, that he might lay it down, and would alfofundry times, be the books what they would,hin- der him from reading and writing over* much,that his mind might reft,and filent- ly meditate with it felf : he added alfo 5 that very often, while he was awake, a fmall, fubiil, inarticulate found would come into his ears. 1 8. E ugenius further enquiring, whether he ever did fee the (hape and form of the Spirit 3 he told him, that while he was a- wake,he never did fee any thing but a cer- tain Hght,very bright and clear,andof a rouj|fl compafle and figure; but that once beingin great jeopardy of his life,and ha- ving heartily prayed toGod that he would bepleafed to provide for hisfafety; about: break of day, amidft his {lumberings and wakings, he efpied on his bed where ke lay, a young boy clad in a white garment* tinttured fomewhat with a touch of pur* pie, and ofavifage admirable lovely and beautiful to behold. 19. And this was the firft RefoGrucUti t* shag i to Iht Holy Gride. L f B. \ that ever 1 Taw, being about (even yeares fince; but being now one of the frater- nity,! asked him of fouls and fpirits ; and what numbers were fitteft to be engraven for a good Genius, and how to goinvili- ble 3 and in feveral (hapes. 20. Now,fayes he, by u a good Angel will come and make you invifible, and transform you into any of thefe fhapes, a Boy, a Lamb, a Dove, a beam or 1 ight; and the Spirit gets into the body, and by his fubtif fubftance more operative and fear- ching then any jEtfor, or lightning, melts the yielding compages ofr the body to fuch a confiftency, and fo much of it as is fitforhispurpofe, and makes it pliable to your imagination 5 and then it is as eafie for him to work it into what fhape heplea- fcth,as it is to work the aire into fuch forms and figures as he ordinarily doth v nor is it anymore difficulty for an Angel to mollifie what's hard, then it is to harden what is Toft and fluid as the ai e. 2i. And he that hath this power, you can allow him that which is lefler, viz. to inftru&men how they (hall for atimefor- fake their bodies, and come in again : for can it be a hard thing for him that can thus melt and take in pieces the particles of thebedy, to have the skill and power coloofen the foul^a fubftance really di- ftinft Lib. i. the Holy Guide. II i ftinft from the bddy, and feparablefrom it, which at laft is done by the eafie courfe of nature at final dirlblution of foul and body, which we call death ; but no courfe of nature ever transforms the body of of man into the fhupe of a Lamb, or a Dove; fo that this is more hard and diffe- rent from the courfe of nature then the other 5 I, you'i fay the greatnefs and in- credulity of the Miracle is this, that there mould be an a&ual feparation of foul and body, and yet no death: But this is not at all ft range, it we confider that death is properly a disjunction of the fcul from the body, by reafon of the bodies unfk- nefs any longer to entertain the foul, be- caufeof difeafes or age. 22. But this is not fuch a miracle, nor is the body properly dead,thoug the foul be out of it *, for the life of the body is no- thing elfe but that fitnefs to be actuated by the foul, the conservation whereof is helped by Aurum Fotabile, and numbers engraven inGold,Silvcr, precious Stones, and in Metals, which keeps out the cold, keeps in the heat and fpirits, : that the frame and temper of the body may con- tinue in fit cafe to entertain the foul again at her return; fo the vital ftem of the car- cafe being not fpent, the priftine operati- ons of life are prefently again kindled,as a L 3 Torch 112 The Holy Guide. Lib. 2 Torch new blown out, and yet reeking, fuddenly catches fire from the flame of a- nother,t hough at fome diftancc, the light gliding down along the fmoak. 23. Wherefore the flying in the aire, walking in Ladies chambers invifibly, and bringing of meiTages from one lover to a- nother, and difcovering fecrets, &c. it is ealie j for they be then really out of the bodies : And Socrates lying in the field for quietnefs fiike, being far from the noife of his brawling wife Zantippe^ fell afleep,and being afleep, Euripides efpied a thing come out of his mouth very lovely to behold, of a whitifli colour, little, but made like a Cony running in thegrafs, and at laft co- ming to a Brook fide, very buyfily attem- pting to get over, but not being able, one of the ftanders by made a bridge for it of hisfword, which it paffed over by, and came back again with the ufe of the fame pafTage, and then entred into Socrates his mouth, and they faw it no more after- wards j when he waked, he told how he dream'd he had gone over an iron bridge, and other particulars anfwerable to what JLurifides and his fellowes had feen before- * handball thofe that transform themfelves into Lambs, Doves,Bryes, or little Birds, or Conies, have their undeftandings un- ehangedjthey h*ave the mind and jpemory of a man as before. * 2^.Mi- LiB. 2. the Boly Guide. 113 24. Miftake me not; all that can do thefe miracles, are not Rofie Crucians; for many of the Witches and Sorcerers in E- gyft. could do miracles as well as Mofes 3 who was taught of God as thefe Refie Cru- cians are. 25. To perfwade you to the truth of numbers, when confecrared to God with Divine names, and engraven upon con- fecrated fubje&s, and what wonderful! vermes they have in natural and fuper- natural things, Khali amplifle and prove by Plothw, for chat which Porphyrins re- cords of him 3 falls little fhort of a miracle, by the number 1 1. as being able by it en- grave!*, as his enemy Olympus confeifed, to retort that Magick upon him, which he pra&ifedagainft Plotinus^ and that fedate- \y fitting- amongft his friends, he would tell them 5 Now Olympus his bo- dy was gathered like apurfe, and his limbs beat one againft another. But your Witches, Sorcerers, Conjurers and Inchanters are not able to ftand before Rofie Crucians, no more then lannes and Iambres could ftand before Mofes, who did really thofe things, and abundance more then the other could imitate by delufi- ons, fleight and Legerdemain $ and this proves the truth of Angels,fallacies of De- vils : the one makes a happy man, the o- L 4 the? U4 The Holy Guide. LfB ? 2 ther makes him mifcrable. The Devil promifed our Saviour more then he could perform; but God performed more to Abraham then he promifed : And to come again to flofin.s , although he was not in- ftrufted by the Jewifh Priefts and Pro- pacts, yet he was a familiar friend of that hearty and devout v^hriitian, and learn- ed Father of the Church, Origen^ whofe authority I would alfo caft in together with the whole confent of the learned amongftthe Jewes; for there is nothing ftrange in the Metaphyseal part of this Holy Guide , but what they had conftancly affirmed to be true; but the unmannerly fuperftition of many is fuch, that they will give more heed to an accuftomed o- pinion, which they have either taken up ofthemfelves, or hath been conveyed un- to them by the confidence of fome pri- vate Theologer, then to the authority of either Fathers, Churches, workers of Mi- racles, or what is beit of all, the mod fo- Jid reafons that can be propounded; which if they were capable of, they could not take any offence at the adqiittance of the Kofie Crucian Philosophy into this pre- fent Holy Guides but the principles and moft notorious conclusions thereof, offer* iiigthemfelvesfo freely,and unaffectedly, and fp aptly and fittingly -{aking their place L i B. 2. the Holy Guide. 1 15 place in the Text, that I know not how, with judgement and conscience, to keep them out. 26. In an elefted hour they engrave 1 1 in call metal 1, and the numbers, Angels and Letters belonging to it 5 and this ma- ked) the bearer to gain in his rrade,cureth all difeafesin the legs, viz the Gout, Sec. And to thi$ appears an Angel like a beau- tiful man, that makes a man profperous by Sea. By this number they know times when to give Medicines, and how Devils offer themfelves •■> by this number you (hall know an Angel from a Devil, as you (hall fee in the third book all in order. CHAP. Ii6 The Holy Guide. Lib. CHAP. XIV. The ZNjimber of kyoty- ledge, of diffofoing (jold &c. Of the fignification of the Number twelve 5 of its natural vertue : twelve Magical Apho- rifmesof Jan bofher: Of Angels, and their nature and dignity : What thefe Guardian Genii may be 5 whether one or more of them he allotted to every man , or to fome none •, what may be the reafon of Sprits fo feldome appearing \ And whether they have any fettled pap e or no : What their manner is of affifling men ineither Devotion^ or Trophefu 3 } or Love : Whether every mans complexion ii capable of the fociety of a good Genius : And lafily , whether it be lawful to pray to God to fend fuch a Genius or Angel to one or no, that in the Number and Name we defm : at the engraving. I.*T*He Number twelve is Divine, and X that whereby the Celeftials are meafured: It is alfo the Number of the figns in the Zodiacf^, over which there are twelve L * B. 7 , T he Holy Guide. 1 1 7 twelve Angels as chief, fupportedby the Irrigation of the great Name of God : In twelve years Jupiter perfects His courfe, and the Moon runs through twelve ^igns in twenty eight dayes or thereabouts. There are twelve chief joynts in nlans body, in hands, elbows, (boulders, thigh?, kneA, and vertebra of the feet : there is a4fo'a great power of the Number twelve in divine Myfteries: God chofe twelve Families, andfet over them twelve Prin- ces : fo many (tones were placed in the niidft of Jordan , and God commanded that fo many mould be fet on the breaft of the Prieft : twelve Lions did bear the bra- zen Sea that Solomon made : there are fo many Fountains in Helim ; and fo many Spies fent to the Land of Promife ; and lo many ^poftles of Chnft Cct over twelve Tribes; and twelve thoufand people chofen; the Queen of Heaven crowned with twelve Stars 5 and twelve Angels are fet over the twelve Gates of the Citjr ; and twelve (tones of the Heavenly Jeru- faletn. In inferiour things, many breeding things proceed from this Number : fo the Cony being moft fruitful brings forth twelve times in the year; and the Camel is fomany months inbreeding , and the Peacock brings forth twelve Eggs 3 & there are 12 months in the year>as Virgil (ings, How 1 18 The Holy Guide* L1B.2 How the Snn du k rule with twelve Zodiac)^ Signes, Ihe Orb that's meafufd round about with Linei) Jt doth the Heavens flarry way make ]t$Qwn y And lirange Eclipfesof the Sun and Moon; Artt'irus alfo> and the Stars of rain^, Ihe j "even Stars lifywife , and Charrofci* Warn i Why Winters Sun m,t\es toward the Weft, f) What maizes the Nights fo long ere they be paft. 2. And there arc twelve Magical Apho- rifmes. 1. Ante omnia puntlum] extitit : non to efc-r/xop, aut Mathematicum , fed diffufivum. Mono* erat explicite : implicite Myrias , Lux erat&noxy principium^ & finis principa^m- nid, & nihil \ eft, & mn % 2. Commovit fe monas in Diade: & per triadem egreffe funt fades Luminis fecundi, 3 . Exivit ignis fimplex, increatus : & fub Aquis induit fe tegumento ignis multiplied , creati. 4. Refpexit ad font em fuperiorem : & in* feriorem dedutlo typo y triplici v.tltu figilla- pit. 5. Cretmt LiB.*. iht Hoi) GH.dc. 119 c. Creavit unum unit as : & in tria di- fimxit\trini:aseft & guatenarius, nexus & medium redu&.ionis. 6. Ex vif.bihbus primunt effulfit Aqua.'. Fcemina inzumbentU ignis & figurabilium gravida mater. 7. Forofa erat interius, & corticilus varia, cujm venta babuit Calos convolutos , & Ajlra tndifcreta. S. Separatus /frtifex divifit banc in Am- plas regiones , & a parente, fttu, difparuit Mater, 9 . Peperit tamen Mater film Lucidos , in* fiuentes in terram Chai. 'to. Hi generant Matrent in novijftmis : cuj us fons cant at in Luco Miraculofo. f ! . Sapienti* condus eft hie : ejio quipotes- promts. 12. Pater eft totius Creati : & ex Filio Creatoper vivamfilii Analyfin,Pater genera* tur y habes fummwn GenerantU Circuli Myfte- rium : filii Filius eft, qui Filti Pater fiat. 3. The Name of God among Angels i s fpokc with twelve letters ^npn fttTp 3^ Father, Son, Holy Ghoft. 4. There are twelve Meflengers that bear the Commands of God 5 and have influence on the nine Orders of Angels, and Quire of blefled Souls 3 and ten Sepbe- T6tk i:o The holy Guide. Li B. fl rotb into the Angels of the Coeleftial Spheres, and Angels of the Planet?, and Planets themfcivesj and into the Angels of the Signs, whofe names are thefe, Mai- chidiel, Afmodicl, Ambriel, Muriel, Verchiel, J-ianalieU Zuriel, Barbiel, Adnarciel, Hanae!^ Gabrlcl^Barchiel', amithefe have influence upon the twelve Signs of the Zodiac^ Aries ; laurm, Gemini ', Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Qapricornus , A- quariut-, Pices : and from thefe Angels after this Order doth man receive a good Ge- nius, according to the Number of his Name, engraven in the Metal, or in one of thefe twelve Stones, a Sardonius,3. Car- tie of,* Topaze, a Cakedony, Jtfper, Emrald, the Beril,zx\ Amethifl, the Hyacinth, a Chri- foprafus, a Chrifial, a Saphir. 5. And there are twelve Tribes, twelve Prophets, twelve Apoftles, twelve Months; twelve Plants, Sang-uprigbt, Vervain, Bend- ing-vervain , Comfry, Lady- feat , Calamyn , Scorpion grafs , Mugwort , Pimpernel-doe^, Dragonwort, ArificJochy : and twelve prin- j cipal Members, the Head, the Nec^, the Arms, the Breafi, the Heart, the Eelly, the! Kidneys, the Genitals, the Hams, the Knees 3 * tht Legs,tht Feet : By the Number twelve Spirits appear thatrefolve all manner of Quefttons 3 as JanboJhar^Adams Tutor faith* and L.B.i. The Holy Guide. 1U and you may find it recorded in the Indi- an Eooks , written by Ifagarith a hundred years before Adam. Now they fay in old time the-Months were called and reckon- ed for years ; but this I leave to more curious pens , and pafTe on to my defign : And if thefe things prattifed be found true , and anfwer the expectation of the Reader , let him then fay faithfully his thoughts of Art,neitherfcandalizing, nos fmutting it with difgraccful words. 6. Now it cannot but amufe a mans mind to think what thefe Officious fpirits mould be, that fo willingly by Numbers fo me times offer themfelvcsto confociatc with a man 5 whether they may be Angels uncapableof incorporation into humane bodies, which vulgarly is conceived : or whether the fouls of the deceafed , they having more affinity with mortality and humane frailty then the other, and fo more fenfibleof our ncceffities and infir- mities, having once felt themfelves, and feparate fouls are in a condition not un- like the Angels themfelves. 7. But there are Angels in Heaven,that are fet over man as Guardians, and their names you find by thefe Axiom at a in the Numbers and Letters , as *h«fewillingty come 122 The Holy O/i/^t. L1B.2. come to us. Now wc are to inquire, whe- ther every man hath his Guardian Genius or no: that Witches have nuny , fiich as they are , their own confeifions tell fie : The Pythagoreans were of opinion that every man hath two Genii, a good one 1 , and bad one , which Mahomet hath taken into his Religion, adding alfo that they fit on mens (boulders with table-books in their hands,and that the one writes down all the good, and the other all the evil a man doth : But fuch exprellions as thefe I look upon as Symbolical rather then Natural. 8. And I think it more reafontfble, that a man changing the frame of his mind, changes his Genius withal , or rather unlefs a man be very fincere and (ingle-hearted, that he is is left to common providence; as well as if he be not defperately wicked j or deplorably miferable, fcarce any par* ticular evil fpirit inter pofes,or offers him- felf a perpetual affiftant in his affairs and fortunes. 9. But extream poverty, irkfome old age,wamof friends,the contempt, injury, and hajd-heartednefs of evil neighbours woiking upon a foul low funk into the body A and wholly devoid of divine life* doth Ll B. 7 . The Holy Guide. 1 2 3 ■ ^_ doth fometimes kindle fo (harp , fo eager, and fo piercing a defire of fatisfa&ion and revenge, that the fhrieks of nien while they are a murthering , the howling of a Woolf in the fields in the night, or the fqueakiilg and roaring of tortured beafts, do not fo certainly call to themthofeof their own kind,as this powerful tylagick of penfive and complaining foul inthcbit- ternefs of its affliction , attracts the aid of thefe our officious fpirits 5 fo that it is moft probable, that they that are the for- warded to hang Witches, arethefirft thac made them , and have no more goodnefs nor true piety, then thefe they fo willing- ly profecute, but are as wicked as they, though with better luck or more difcreti- on , offending no further then the Law ■ will permit them $ and therefore they fe- verely ft'arve the poor helplefs man, though with a great deal of clamour of Juftice, they will revenge the death of their Hog orGow. 10. And now ic were worth our dif- quifition, why fpirits fo feldpm now a- dayes appear , efpecially thofe that are good; whether it be not the wickednefs of the prefent Age, as I have already hint- ed , or the general prejudice men have againftallfpirics that appear, that they muft be ftreight-ways Devils* or the frailty M H 124 T ^ H°h Guide. Ll B.2 • of humane nature that is notufually able to bear the appearance of fpirits , no more then other Animals are^ for into what Agonies Horfes and Dogs are caft upon their approach 3 is in every ones mouth, and is a good circumftance to diftinguifh a real Apparition from our own imagina- tions. it. Or laftly,whetheritbenot the con- dition of fpirits themfelves, who, it may be, without fome violence done to their own nature, cannot become vifible, it be- ing happily, as troublefome a thing to them to keep themfelves in one fteady vi- fible confiftency in the Air,as it is for men that dive to hold their breath in the wa- ter. * 12. Now although Spirits appear upon Numbers and Names engraven upon Me- tals, Minerals, or previous Stones, ic may deferve ourfearch, whether fpirits have any fetled form or (hape : Angels are com- monly pictured, like good plump boyes, which is no wonder the boldnefs of the fame Artift , not (licking to picture God Almighty in thefliape of an old man : In both as it pleafes the Painter. 13. But this ftory feems rather to fa- vour their opinion, that fay, that Angels and feparate fouls have no fettled form, but what they pleafe to give themfelves upon .Lib. 2. The Holy Guide. t a5 upon occasion by the power of their own fancy. Ficinus> as I remember, fomewhere calls them Aereal Stars. And the good Genii feem to me to be as the benign eyes of God running to and fro in the world, with love and pity beholdirigthe inno- cent endeavours of harmlefs and fingle- hearted men,ever ready to do them good, and to help them. 1 4. What I fpeak here of the condition of the foul out of the body, I think is eafily applicable to other Genii or Spirits; and this I conceive of feparate fouls and fpirits. &K e t( > a ti$t faft locked in Lanthorn dar\ Whereby by night our wary sleps we guide 1 In flabby Jlreets, and dirty channels mar}^ Some weaker rayes from the blacky top doe And flufljer flreams perhaps through th* hor~ ny fide; But we've paft the peril of the way. Arrived at home^ and laid that cafe afide 3 The nakgd light how clearly doth it ray. And fpread its joyful beams bright as Sum* mersday ! Even fo the foul in thUcontraUed ftaie Confined to thefc ftrait Inftruments of fenfe f/lorc dull and nmwly $s opftat* $ M 2 4i 1 2 6 the Holy Guide. L l B. 2 . At this hole bears, the fight ntuftray from thence, Heretafles, there ftnells, but when Jhe's gone front hence, And round about has perfett cognofcence ; What ere in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of fenfe, all eye, all Aieryear. 15. Now you know by the vertue of Names and Numbers how fpirits appear 5 let us inquire how thefe good Genii be- come ferviceable to men,for either heighte- ning their Devotions, or inabling them to Prophefie, &c. whether it can be by any other way then by defcending into their bodies,and poflefling the heart and brain ; For the Euchites , who affe&ed the gift of Prophefie by familiarity with evil fpirits, did utterly obliterate in their fouls *he vtLTeM* coy.^K^ the principles of j;ood- n e fs and honefty (as you may fee in To . fellw, *t£\visy*ta.s fcuphav) that the evil fpirits might come into their bodies,whom thefe fparks of vertue, as theyfaid would drive away, but thofe being extinguifht, chey could come in and poffefs them, and inable them to prophefie. 16. And that the Imps of Witches do fometimes enter their own bodies, as well as theirs to whom they fend them, is plain in the ftory of Witches in Trifntegift. 17. It Lib, 2. The Boly Guide. 127 17. Ic is alfo the opinion of R. Lully> that thefe fpirits get into the vains and Arteries both of men and beafts. iS. Wherefore concerning the holy Kofie Crucians , it may be conceived reafo- nable,that the good Genii infinuate them- felves into their very bodies, as well as the bad into the bodies of the wicked 5 and that redding in the brain , and figuring of it by this or that objett , as weourfelves figure it,when we think the external fenfes being laid afleep, thofe figurations would eafily be reprefented to the common fenfe; and that memory in the Rofie Cru- cian E. T. recovering them when he awa- ked, they could not butfeem co him as other dreams did , faving that they were better , they ever fignifyingibmething of importance unto him. 19. But thefe Raptures of Devotion by day, might by the fpirits kindling a purer kind of love flame in his heart, as well as by fortifying and railing his imagination, and how far a man (hall be carried beyond himfelf by this redoubled foul in him^ none I think,can well conceive unlefs they had the experience of it. 20. And if this be their manner of communion 3 it may be enquired by this Number, whether all men be capable of confociation with thefe good Genii. Qar- M 3 d f vt iag ihe Holy Guide. Lib. 2 dan fomewherc intimates thac their ap- proiches arc depreheniible by certain fweet fmells, where the rnind doth not funk with pride and hypocrilie,hqve Come natural advantage for the gaining their fociety. But if there be any peculiar complexion or natural condition requi- red 5 it will prove lefs hopeful for every One to obtain their acquaintance } yet Regeneration comes to its due pitch : though it cannot be without much pain andangui(h,may well recYifie all unclean- nefs of nature ; fothat no Angular good and fincere man can reafonably defpair of their familiarity. For he that is fo highly in favour with the King, it is no wonder he is taken notice of by his Cour- tiers. 1 1. Some queftion thefe Numbers, and the vertuesl attribute to them when en- graven 5 whether God afiifts us or not, and whether it be lawful to pray to God for fuch a good Genius or Angel : But the examples of Enoch, Mofts, Jofkua, Elijah, Jeremiah, Ezehjel, Daniel, St. John Baptifi, and St. John the Divinc,with many others, as Heftor of Troy, Alexander, Julius Ctfar 9 Judas Maccabeus , King Arthur of England, tharlemain, or Charles the Great, Huon of Bur deux. Godfrey of Bulloyn, and thoufands more I could name, feems a fujficient war- ranto 32. But L l B .2 . The Hoi) Guide 129 22. Buc I conceive faith and defire ought to be full fail to make fuch voyages profperouf , and our end and purpofe pure and liucere ; but if pride, conceitednefs, or affe&ation of fome peculiar priviledge above other mortals , fpur a man up to fo bold an enterprize, his devotions will no more moveeither God, or the good Genii, then the whining voice of a counterfeit will ftir the afTe&ion cf the difcreetly charitable. Nay this high prefumption may invite fome real friends to put a worfe jeft upon him, then was put upon that tattered Rogue Guzman, by thofe Mock-fpirits , for his fo impudently pre- tending kindred,land fo boldly intruding himfelf into the knowledge and acquain- tance or the Gentry and Nobility of Genoa, But the fafeft Magick is the fincere con- fecrating a mans foul to God , and the afpiring to nothing but fo profound a pitch of humility , as not to be confciouS to our felves of being at all touched with the praife and applaufe of men, and to fuch a free and univerfal fenfeof charity, as to be delighted with the welfare of another as much as our own ; they that folely have their eyes upon thefe, by Numbers and Names, will find coming in what ever tUeir heart can defire 5 but M 4 thc / 13° 7 ^e Holy Guide. Li b. 2 they that put forth their hand to catch at high things, as they fancy, and neglect thefe, prove at laft but aplaguetothem- felves,and a laughing (lock to the world. In a convenient fcafon they engraved the Number twelve in a white and clear ft one, with the Letters of the name of the party, andtheGeniu?, Angel, and Pla- net,eH. And this encreafeth felicity, honour, and conferreth benevolence and profperity D and i reeth from enemies ; and this Number cureth all difeafes in the feet: to this they fay appears a Genius, whofe figure is a man, having the head of a Lion, or a Ram, and Eagles feet, and he feemstobeinBlew, and a flame of light attends him. By this Number they know whether the Medicine will profper or not. CHAP. Li B. 7 . The Holy Guide. 1 3 1 A» «ft» •$- -Si* «ft* *$* *& A «b 40> <*P <*P qCP CHAP. XV. Of what Angels appear by the vertue and power of Numbers above twelve, ^.JN thirteen for the Agreement of JL Married Couples, and for the diflbl- ving of the Charmes againft Copulation, they added the Numbers of their Names together, and divided them by nine, and the remainder was engraven with thir-* teen upon a plate of Beril and Zedecl^ and then a Genii would appear like a man and woman in white unbracing. 2. Now the Numbers that are above twelve, you fee are endowed with many and various effe&s and vcrtues, whereof you muft underftand by their originals and parts , as they are made of a various gathering together of fimple Numbers, or manner of multiplication 5 fometimes as their fignifications arife from the lcflen- sng, or exceeding of another going afore,, efpecially more perfect, fothey contain of themfelves the figns of certain Divine Myfterfes 5 132 Tfo Holy Guide. L \ BSi Myfteries, fo you fee the third Number above tea (hews the YJyftery of Ghrifts appearing to the Gentiles , for the thir- teenth day afcer his Birth a Star was a guide to the Magicians. 3. The fourteenth day doth typifie Chrift, who the fourteenth day of the firft Month was facrificedibr us: upon which day the Children of Ifrael were comman- ded by the Lord to celebrate the Pafsover, 14. Matthew, doth fo carefully obferve, that he pafTed over fame Generations, that he might every where obferve this Number in the Generations of Chrift. To cure the (Ick, they made this Number in gold, and then an Angel would appear like the head of a Lion , and they would tnakea perfume of Amber. 4. The fifteenth Number is a token of fpiritual Afcentions, therefore the Song of Degrees is apply ed to that in fifteen Pfalms. And fifteen years were added to the life of Hezekjah ; and the fifteenth day of thefeventh month was obferved and kept holy: This Number they en- graved with the mans name in Virgin Wax andMaftick, and then would appear a King crowned, before whom they would burn Lignum Aloes , and he would recon- cile him with his King whom he offend- ed., 5. The LiB-2. The Holy Guide. 13 * 5. The Number fixteen the Tytbagori- ans^Pcrphirians and Platonifts call the Num- ber of Felicity. Italfo comprehends all the Prophets of the Old Teftament, and the Apoftles and Evangelifts of the New. * They engraved this in a filver Ring,whofe table was fquare, and then the Genius would appear in the fhape of a woman well cioathed, fitting in a chair* to whom they would burn Mus^ Camphire 5 and Calamus Aromaticut. They affirmed, that Hie giveth happy fortune, and every good thing 6. The Number feventeen is called of R' Luliy, a Number of Victory ; by it en- graven with the Letters and Numbers of his Name, added together in red Wax, appeared a Genius like a Souldier fitting on an Horfe, holding a Piftol cockt in his right hand ready to fire; and they burnt red Earth and Storax before him : And this enabled Julim C£far to come into this Kingdom e of England, 7. By the number eighteen, Ifraelfer- ved Eglon King of Niaab : your name and number engraven in Iron, they fay will preferve you againft The eves and Rob- bers , for a Genius in the form of an Ape willjittend. 8* By the Number nineteen engraven in Copper, appeared a woman holding her 134 The Holy Guide. LlB.2. her hands upon her face, and they burnt liquid Storax before it, that might facili- tate birth, and provoke the Menftrues. 9. By the Number twenty 9 Jacob fcrved, and Jfrael was fold 5 and amongft crea- tures that havemany feet, there is non^. that have above twenty feet, and they fay that this number engraven in Tyn , with the Number of the Hunters name , will bring you a Genius like Sagittary, half a man , and half a horfe, and before this they burnt a Woolfs head, and it made them profperous in hunting. 10. By twenty one, with the Number of the Kings name, for the deft ruction of his enemies, and to overcome iCingdomes, they engraved it in gold , and finely wrought it, and then appeared a Genius^ in the image of a man , with a double countenance before and behinde , and before this they burnt brimftone and J et - 1 1. Twenty twongnifies the fulnefs of wifdome,and fo many are the Characters of the Hebrew Letters, and fo many books doth the Old Teftament contain : by this Number engraven in filver, a little Virgin appears, and is reported to increafe the light of the eyes, to aflemble Spirits, to raife Winds ,to reveal fecret and hkkien things. 12. Twenty jLiB.2. I he tioiy umae. 135 12. Twenty three. Engraven with the mans name, and the Numbers of it, in a Saphyr 3 maketh appear the Genius of a man willing to make himfelf rnerry with Mufical Instruments , and he maketh a man honoured before Kings and Princes, andhelpeth the pain of the teeth, hebe- ftovveth the favour of men and Aireal fpi- rits. 13. Now I fhall fay nothing of twenty four,becaufe it is evil,and giveth a Genius of a wicked man , whofe name was Cain, and the name of any Spirit you may find by the number and name of the man, for what remains of Addition, and Divifion, tells you the number and the name of the fpirits 5 1 have told you of all mens names, what Angels rule them asyou heard be- fore ; thefe numbers arefaid to be good andprofperousjws. 1,2, 3,457,9,11313. 14. vei 7 g°°cU 16, 173 19? 20,223 23,10, 26, 27. indifferent good, 5, 6,8, 12, 15, 185 21. very ill, 24325,28,29,30. worft of all, CHAP. ig6 The Holy Guide. LiE.2. 7 &£ Si 1$$ to JtJ«t& «9s &$&$ 2?? $5 CHAP. XVI. Of Kings, Lords, or other people that fight, or go to Law one again]} another y which fhafl have the Vifiory, i. ^JOw we have ftiewedyouthe pow- JL ll er, vertue, and fignification of numbers 5 we (hall next teach you the ufc of them: And rirft, you muft know the proper names of them which would fight or go to Law one againft the other: and according to the letters and numbers in the fecond Chapter of this book : Joyn unto each letter of the faid names the number that is attributed to it, and fumme the faid numbers together each man by himfelf, and divide the fumme of each mans name by nine, and judge by thefe Rules following 5 and if it fortune, that in dividing the whofe by nine, there remain nothing; then the laft number of i nine muft be it, you muft adde to his i name. 2o And if the names be both one, the Nctra* i LiB.2. The Holy Guide 157 Numbers will be the fame, as John againft John; and you rnuft remember to write the names in the Nominative cafe lingu- lar. 3. And if one to one remaine, then in combate, he that is of the letter ftature (hall overcome the other, becaufe the lef- fer loves Clamours, Seditions,R.ebellions, Deceits, Strife, Debate, and is Captain of an ill company, that ftrive to over-run and kill men,and by that means is feared; fome men fay the younger mall overcome the elders but I obferve not that rule: the greater isa-mighty man, ftrong and cruel, proud, and given to fight ; but yec he (hall be hurt in the head ; and the lef- fer (hall have the choice of weapon, and overcome the other ; in Law the leder (hall obtain the fuit. 4. Two to two, the greater (hall have the choice of weapon, and (hall have the victory with long weapon, becaafeheis noble and handfome, and of good repu- tation, and loves good company: The leffer is a man of good nature and well beloved ; but yet he loves to kifs in a cor • ner, and therefore he (hall be hurt in the face, and on the arm ; In Law thegrea* terfhall obtain this fuit , and this trouble is or will be about women. 5. Three againft three * here the lefler (hall lg 8 The holy Guide. Ltb.2, fliall chufc and overcome with fliort wea« poiijbecaufe he is Princely, and full of fpirit ; but the greater is a poor fouldier, that hath nothing but hisfword ; he hath been hurt in the arm, and is fervant to them that have likewife been hurt, and have loft fome of their limbs, and (hall now be hurt in the ftomack : In Law the the lefler being witty fhall obtaine his fuit. 6. Four to four; now the greater (hall have the choice of weapons,and (hall have the victory with long weapon ; he is lofty in his deeds, and takes pleafure in Arms , being very handfom and amiable in com- plexion, full of words, contentious: In Law-fuit the greater (hall obtain the in- heritance of his father or mother, or the goods of the other that is in controverfie with him-, is one of wifdome, beauty and policy, and well beloved, yet by deceit and treafon would he beguile his friends, but he fails. 7. Five to five; then the lefler flature fhall chufe the weapon, and overcome withfhort weapon; yet the party is luft^ lefs ; and weak in generation, however honeft, and therefore the greater (hall be hurt on the fide, and on the head, and fhall finely dye, becaufe he loves unjuft quarrelling inihe Law, the lefler fhall in two Terms obtain his fuit. 8 6 2/ LiB.2. ihe Holy Guide. 139 8. Six to fix 5 again the taller (hall o- vercome, but the lower (hall chufe his weapon, the other is an ingenious man, full and active of body, a lover of good cloaths , Guns, Crofs-bows, Horfes and Harnefs. 9. Seven to feven 5 and again thelefler fhall vanquifh with the choice of weapon, which is fhort ; (heisagreat Lady, angry, and a fighter, and feeketh nothing but ftrife and quarrels, a favourer of He&ors, and men of War for her defence, and to be maintained by them in her controvert lies j and the greater fhall be (hot in the arm, and hurt in the head and ito- mack. 10. Eight to eights the greater (hall overcome with long weapon, 8c thelefler fhall have the choice of weapon, thf grea- ter is a very fawning deceitful Knave, full faced and bodied, of a brown hair, much givdh to Witchcraft,charmsand Inchanr?* ments 5 a great embracer of women, and therefore (hall hurt theleffer in the belly-, fide and knee: In Law the greater ftiali obtain his fuitj and there is like to be murther, for the letter is a good manor countenance and condition, and loves good cloaths, but high fpirited; and to there is like to be blowsgiven, with more lofs to him that (hall win thefuit then it i worth. N ii. Nine 1 40 the Holy Guide. L I B.2 . 1 1. Nine to nines here the leffer (hall have the choice of weapon, and beat the other with (hort weapon *, he is a man ve- ry noble in his a&ions, aims and high things, with a little pride*, the other is one hath great power to do evil, apply- ing himfelf unto nothing but revenge, to murther and (laughter, and to rob and deceive: A Phanatick Anabaptift in the fear of God will cut your throat, he (hall be for all his cunning hurt on the knee, and on the fide : In fuit the leffer (hall obtain without trouble, and they go to Law for Heritages, or Womens apparrel found ; the leffer (hall be content to take part rather than trouble. 1 2. i to 2, the 2 (hall have the choice of weapon, and overcome one with (hort wcapcyi,and h? (hall be hurt in the head for all his gallantry, and dye thereof. In Law one fhall win, and have more favour in his fuit then he looks for *, and thi fuit is brought for Gownes, Garments, and womens money. 13. One to three $ one is a man will chufe the long weapon and beat the o- ther ; three (hall be hurt on the arm, and oniheftomack: In Law one (hall obtain the fuit, the declaration is upon bond or debts 14. One to four, here four (hall chnfe the L l B. 2 . Tkc Holy Guide. i 4. 1 the field and day of battel, and overcome his enemy with long weapon; and one (hall be hurt at the heart: In Law four fhall by deceit obtain his fuit, which is a- bout Succeflion or Inheritance. i«v One againft five; The firft fhall chufe the field and day of battel, and o- vercome five with fhort weapon: In Law one fhall obtain his fuit, which is fome gift of a Lord or Knight. 1 6. One to fix ; here fix fhall beat one, and hurt him in the belly and head with a long weapon, and imprifon him. And in Law fix fhall obtain their fuit, wfyich is brought about with money or merchan- dizable wares; and at laftthey fhall be friends. 17. One to Cewtn ; in this bufinefs one fhall beat feven with a fhort weapon, and hurt him on the fide, although he had the choice: In Law one fhall obtain his fuic abqut women, or marriage-goods ; and the fuic fhall be long. 18. One againft eight; here one fhall be hurt on the fide, and in the genitorie«, with long weapon, becaufe he ispoorani malicious : he will be long angry, he is hurt or blemifhed in his face, one of his eyes is out, one of his members is cut a- way, and he is an old man : and eight al- foispoor,perplexed, proud and (brrow- n 2 foil 1 4 2 The Holy Guide. LlB. * ful, having one of her members cut away: in Law eight (hall obtain his fuit, which is about goods and houfh old-fluff, andfuch things as are immovable, as houfes and the appurtenances, 8cc 19. One to nine 5 one (hall have the choice of weapon, and beat nine, and hurt him on the fide : In Law one (hall win, and the fuit is about honour, preferment, or fome preheminence. 20. Two to three j here three (hall be beat with (hort weapon, and two (hall be hurt on the arm:In Law 3 (hall obtain his fuit by the help of the Parfon of the Pa- rim, becaufeitis amongft kindred about heritages 3 1. Two to four ; now two (hall have the better in fighting, and hurt four on the ftomack,and on the arm : In Law two {hall win by the fubtilty of his Attor. ney. 22. Twoagainft five; here five (haU in fighting beat two, and hurt him in the flank and bread : in law five (hall obtain the fuit, which, is about women and wo- mcns cloaths. 23. Two to fix ; here two (hall over- come and beat iix with long weapon, and hurt him in the body^ and on his (houl- ders : In Law two (hall obtain his fuit without any great trouble -, two is a man de- Lie. 2. ihe Holy Guide- 145 delighting inftrifeand contention, and imjuftly he pra&ifeth, to take away the goods of others j fix is a fine fellow, well made, and of good countenance, proud, and therefore they will agree, and thefuit is about Merchandize, or money lent ; for it is bettertopleafea knave then an ho- neft man. 24. Two to Ctven ; now feven will beat and hurt two on the fide, although two fhall have the choice of weapon, yet he fhall be overcome : In Law feven dial! ob- tain his fuit by delay es; two keep* com- pany with martiall men, or with little men, that have their eyes funk in their heads, anda fmall beard, ready to doa mifchief -> wherefore Ctstn will eaiily be content to be quiet. 25. Two to eight; here two (hall have the choice of weapon, and beat eight,and hurt him on the ftones and bottom of his belly: In Law two (hall obtain his fuir, and he is a man very fad and penlive, pu- nifhing his body by an extreme melan- cholinefs,awd he loves to dig in the earth, fortofinde treafure : and therefore two fhall be alTifted by men of fmall fTaturc, counterfeit, and as it were menftrous : eight is a man very happy,3iid taketh no- thing in hand,butit fhal turn co his praifc; but here it happeneth eight fliall have N 3 good 1 44 'iht Holy Guide. LlB.2 go^d right, but that [the fubtilty of two is of fuch force, that eight (hall lofe ; and this fuit is for movable goods. 26. Two to nine; now nine (hall beat and hurt two at the heart with (hort wea- po:i : In Law nine (hall obtain his fuit , which is about gift s or goods of the dead. 27. Three to four > by (hort weapon, four (hall beat three, and hurt him in the head and arms; In Law four (hall obtain his fuit, which is about his Fathers goods, and his kinsfolk would beguile him. 28 Three to five; by (hort weapon three (hall hurt five on the fide or moulder, at laft friends : In Law three (hall obtain his fuit, and after they (hall be friends. 29. Three to fix 5 with long weapon fix fhall hurt three in the belly : In Law fix (hall obtain hisfuit,which is for merchan- dize. 30. Three to feven 5 here three (hall beat feven, and hurt him in the leg and arm : In Law the fuit (hall be long, yet at lad obtained by three. 31. Three againir eight* by long wea- pon three (hall be hurt on the body and entrails by eighth In Law eight (hall ob- tain his fuit, which is about the apparel, dowry, or things of women. 3 2. Three to nine; now with (hort wea- pons three (hail hurt nine in the head, whereof LiB.2. The Holy Guide. J45 whereof he fhall die : In Law three fhall obtain hisfuit by the help of fome Lords of the Kings Court. 33. Four to five; Here H\e fhall beat four and kill him : In Law five fhall ob- tain his fuir, becaufe he is an honefi man in heart, and the fuit is about goods gi- ven by the Prince. 34. Four to fix ; with long weapon, fix fhall hurt four in the body : In Law four fhall obtain hisfuit, wheh is for money or merchandize. 35. Four to feven ; now feven will beat four with (hort weapon, and hurt him on the knee and face : In Law fewen fhall ob^ tain hisfuit. 36. Four to eight: with ftiort weapon four fhall hurt eight in the breaft and arms : In Law four fhall obtain his fuit. 37. Four to nine 5 here nine fhall beat four, and hurt him in the fide: And in Law nine fhall obtain his fuit. 38. Five to fix; by long weapon fix fhall hurt five on the head and face : In Law fix fhall obtain his fuit, which is for money lent. 39. Five to feven; here five fhall kill feven: In Law five fhall win his Fathers inheritance. 40. Five to eight; with long weapon fivefhallbe hurt in the fide, and in the N4 hands: T4 6 The Holy Guide. Lib.2 hands: In Law eight (hall obtain hisfuit. 41. Five to nine; now five (hall hurt nine on the moulder : In Law five (hall ob- tain hisfuit. 42. Six againft feven; here feven fhall have the choice of weapon, and hurt fix on the head : In Law Cevew (hall win, and the fuit is for Merchandize. 43. Six to eight ; here fix (hall be hurt on the head by eight : In Law fix (hall ob- tain his fuit ; they be both good men,and will at laft be friends . 44. Six to nine; now nine (hall beat fix and hurt him on the arm, and on the leg: InLaw nine (hall obtain his fuit. 45. Seven to eight; here ei^ht fhall beat and hurt feven on the breaft and heart : In Law eight (hall obtain hisfuit, which is for garments,, or movable goods left by kindred. 46. Seven againft nine; by (hort wea- pon nine (hall be hurt in the face : InLaw nine (hall obtain his fuit. 47. Eight againft nine; with nine eight (hall be overcome, and hurt in the body : In Law nine (hail obtain his fuit. Li B.3. The Holy Guide. \ 47 ARule abridged^ to know which of the two that fights or go to Law ; (hall have the Vi&ory. 3 in Aries i, againft in Aries 1, the lefler conquers. ? in Taurus 2, againft ) in Taurus 2, the bigger conquers. g'm Gemini 3, againft 5 in Gemini 3, the lefler conq. % in Cancer 4. againft )in Cancer 4.I the greater conq. 5 iii Leo 5. againft in Leo 5. the lefler conq. 5 in Fzrgo 6. againft 2 in F/'rgo 6. the high- er conq. $ in Li£r* 7. againft ft in Li£rvz 7. the lefler conq. ^ in Scorpio 8. againft 5 in Scorpio 8. the greater conq. tyin Sagittarius 9. againft ) in Sagittarj 9. the lefler conq. ? in Taurus 1. againft) in Tiwrw 2. two (hall conq. J in Gewwi 1 . againft 5 in Gwff/Tr* 3. 1 (hall conq. 9 in Leo 1, againft in Leo 4. 4 (hall con, quer. ] 48 The Holy Guide. L i B* 2 Q\\\ Aries g. againft $ in ytfr/^5. j (hall conq. $ in Virgo a againft 5 in Firgo 6. 6 fliall conq. ^'m Libra 1. againft fain Libra 7. 1 (hall ccnq. c?in Virgo 1. againft $ in Virgo 8.8 fliall conq. % in Sagittarius 1. againft in Sagittarius 9> conq. cT in Gemini 7 .againft 5 in Gemini 3 . 3 {hall conq, ty in Cancer 2. againft } in Cancer 4. 2 (hall conq. ft in L^r6 is attributed to Venus and Juno, 7 belongs to Saturn,^ is attributed to Jupiter and Vulcan, Cybele and Bacchus 5 fotne attribute it to the three Ladies ofVefiiny, 9 belongs to the Moon, and the nine Mufes ; 1 o belongs to the Sun and Janus; 11 is attributed to the Moon, \2 is at- tributed to the World. 4 CHAP \%2 The Holy Guide. LlE.2, CHAP. XVII. The Refolution of all manner of gHejlions , and how by thefe Num- bers you may be happy, &c. i.X 7X7 Hether a perfon fhall livelong or 2. If aperfon fhall be healthful or fichjy . 3 . if one fhall find the party at home one would fpea\ with. 4. Whether one abfent be dead or alive. 5. Whether a Ship fhall come home fafe. 6. If a man (hall be rich. 7. If Reports be true or falfe. $ . If find again the thing loft . 9 , If a man fhall enjoy the Eftate of hit fa- ther. jo. If it be good to hire or takf the Farm or Houfede fired. ir. If good to remove from one houfe to ano- ther. 12. If one fhall have Children • 13. Whether the Father be dead or not. 14. If the Child be right Fathered 3 oraEa- jlard. 15. Whether a Iwnbefiegcd fhall be takgn 16. If there beany ill company in the way a ^an would ee. i 7 . // LlB.2. The Holy Guide 1 5 3 ! 7. If it be good to pit on new Clothes. 18. If * promife made fljall be performed, ly. If the Earth jhall bring forth plenty if fruits, or not. 20. If a ftk P a rty Jhall live or dye. gf . If a fervant (hall get free from his Ma* Jier. 2 2 . If it be good to take PhyficJ^. iy If it he good to vifit the fick^ perfon, or not. 24. If a man jhall marry. 25. If he Jhall marry well or ill, 26. If a man be wife, or afooL 27. If a woman be rich or not you would marry. 28. If agree after Marriage, or not. 29. Whether a Vamofelbe a Maid, or no*. 30. Whether a Woman be hone ft to herHtw band, or not. 31. If beajis loft, be dead or alive. 3 2 . Whether a Ihief (hall be taken, or not. 3 3 . Whether the thing loft be ftoln, or not. 34. If a City, Town, or Caftle Jhall be takgn, or not. 3 <$ . If a party abfent be dead or alive. 3 6 . Whether the man (hall die a good death. • 37. If the Wifes Portion jhall be obtained. 38. if it be good to call Angels in matters of Love, or not. 39. If the Spirit he good or evil, that appears, and whether it be an Angel °f 1 54 The Holy Guide. L1B.2 of Heaven^ or a Devil of Hell. 40. If the wind JhaU blow fair. 41. If gctthe?hilofophenStone,&c. 42 . If Dreams be for good or evil. 42. If the FarfonJhaU obtain the Benefice or not. 44. If one JhaU obtain the preferment de» fired. a<. if i* he good to go to Battel , or not. 46. If the Kin &9 Fo P e ) Prince, n Lord fic^ JhaU amend, or not, 47. If love betwixt two JhaU continue : If it he good to go to the Court or not. 48. If thy Friend be faithful^ orafraytor. 49. If one JhaU be imprifoned or not. 50. \f a party be bewitched, or not. e 1 . Whether one JhaU enter into the favour of the King. 52. If the Prince JhaU have the Vitloty in War. 55. If there JhaU be peace betwixt England and France. • 5 a If the Captain be valiant, or not. 55/I/ the Horfe Jhall win tbe Race 56. \f a Frifoner Jhall come ou t of prifon. .57. If * fickpefs (hall belong crjhort. 58. If you Jhallenjoy the woman de fired. 59. If it be good to take * journey. 60. If the child (hall be fortunate or not . 61. If it frail be a plentiful year . ii. ]fit be good to trade in Merchandize. 63. If LiB.2. The Holy Guide. ~^sT ^ % 4~ t Jf it be good to takg a Wife. 6% if friendjhip jhallttkf goodeffetf, or not. 6*5 . if a mafl fi a tt be fortunate in his hbvfe. £6 # jf a wan have fecret Enemies, or not. $n. The way to Happinefs 3 and how U oh* tainitfiLC. 68. The prolongation of Life. 69. TheKeslitutionof Touth in fonte Degree, 70. The Retardat ion of Age. 7 i. The Curing of Difeafes counted Incura- ble. 72. The Mitigation of Pain. 73. More Eafie and lefie Loatbfome Vurgings. 74. The increafing of Strength and Ad.ivity. 75. The increafing of Ability to fufferTtrture or Tain. 76. The Altering of Complexions : And Fat- nefs , and Leannefs. 77. The Altering of Statures. 78. The Altering of Features, 79. The Increafing and Exalting of the ito* telleclual Farts. 80. Verfionsof Bodies into other Fodies. 81. Making of New Species. 82. Transplanting of Species into another. 83. Inftiuwents of Vefiru&ion, as of War^and Foyfen 84. Exhilaration of the Spirits 5 and Tutting them ingoodVifpofition, 85. Force of the Imagination , either upon I another Body , or upon the tody it felf. IS 6 The Holy Guide. L1B.2 86. Acceleration of Time in Maturations. $n. Acceleration of Time in Clarifications. 88. Acceleration of Futrefattion. 89. Acceleration of Decoction, go. Acceleration of Germination. 9 1 . Making Rich Ccmpojis for the Earth. 9 2. Imprefions of the Air , and raifing of Tempers. g -> Great Alteration ; as in Induration JLmol- lition^ &c. p. Turning crude and watry Sub}} ances into Oyly and Vntrious Subjiances- r -. Drawing of jtfew Foods outof Sub (t ances not now in ufe. 96. Making new Tbreds for Apparel ; and new Stttffes 5 fucb as are Paper, Glafie, Sec. 97. Natural Divinations. 9 8 « Deceptions of the Senfes . 99. Greater Vleafures of the Senfes. 100.. Artificial Minerals and Cements. All which you (hall find in the Books,in order-, tuft chufe a Number, and Telefma- tically engine it ac a convenient time foryo'ur work; eleft a proper hour> and you cannot after erre, but perform in- credible, extraordinary things 3 under- hand well this book, for the more ealie opening the reft 3 and God profper the work. And Ll B. 2 . The Holy Guide. 1 57 And thus you may do of all other Q.ieftionSj whereof you would be refolved. And now that you may better under- ftand this Figure 3 and all things, and the Refolution of the demands you would propound 3 you muft firft of all chufe a Number, what you will at yourdifcreti- on, as five, fe\en, or nine, or any other rnorcorleffes this done , take the Num- ber of the day', as you (hall find in order, and then take the Number which you find in thefecond Chapter , or that you iind in the Globe upon the firft Letter of your Name,asyo 1 wereChnftened, For example, if your Name be Francv, you muft takeF. and the number which is over it,and you (hall find all in order in the Scheam > and gather all thofe Num- bers into one fum , and divide them by thirty, referving the reft as remains ? and fearch in the Figure ; and if you find it above in the upper half, your matter mail fpeed well ; and if it be in the neither half 3 it (hall beevil: And thus you may know all that you defire, and be it love which alters the Rumor, as Vlyjfes was al- tered by the Mufick of hisMiftnfs. O 2 i 58 iht Holy Guide. LiB.a «. , - — -' — — — — « it When to her Lute Penelope fings. Her voice inlivens the leaden firings But when of forrows floe doth ffeal^ Even with her fighs the firings do breafc And as her Lute do th live or dye, Led by her paflions , So do L For to know whether you (hall enjoy your Love, or not ; take the number of the firft letter of your Name, the number of the Planet,and of the day of the week, and all thefe Numbers ye (hall put toge- ther, and then divide them by thirty , as you did before, and take your remainder, and fee in the upper part, if it be there, y ou (hall have your requeft ; if it be in the nether half, it is contrary : And thus may you be refolved of all things you would know; you muftobferve the Numbers in the Figure exceed not thirty, as you (hall find them beginning with one, two,three, and four, and fo confequent ly to thirty. 7 he Numbers of the Vlanets , and their Characters. 7. 3. 9. 10. 6. 5. 2. Saturn^Juf iter ^Murs^ol^Venus^Mercur. Luna T> % S * ' 8 D Numbers LiB. 2. The Holy Guide. 159 Numbers of tbe dayes of the Week,: Sunday , blunday, Tuefday , Wednefday^ 106. 52. 52. 102. Jburfday^ Friday^ Saturday, 31. ' 9S 45- Jhus have we (hewed you the Num- bers of thePlanecsj and the dayes of the Week , and their Numbers. Now that nothing may be wanting to this Art, here follows the names of the Idea's, Rulers, g d Angels thereof, according to the Me- thod of God. Eheia, Jod, Jehova Jebova Elohim^ElJLlo- himGibortWpriTY), V]23X,Eloba, Jeho- va y Sabaoth y Eloim Sabaotb, Saidai, Adonoy meley. Ketber, Hocbmab, Benah, Hefed, Geburah, ZepherethyNezak, Hod, Jefod,Malcurh. Ambriel, Afmodel, Maltbidiei mett, Bar- cbiely Cambiel, HanaeL # # # ni * # # # S # # # Y. fobki, X * #. *» # * #. * # a? * # #. 6. *. 4. 3. 2 1. h Zaphkiet, 900 g Q o 700. 600 5 «A s £ $ Michael, « 8 iU|^. 400. 500. 600. 700. 800. 900. X>. Gabriely 1. 2. 2.. 4.5. 6. T Z I V W Hu Jjfim y A B CD Aierto Th^iffOTBs of jyiroTtiattcy anl Geom ancy goal epuL wilL^ l4* The Holy Guide. LlB.2. Ale do, Magera, Aracus, ABeus, Magate* zius> Lucifer , Rhad&mantus, Nicon y Lieut, MiMonrCtefiphoKe. T>apfa Beemothy Ogia> Leviathan, Corritia, Ophdix , Egin , Thefmephma , Amaimon, Hornta. Advacbiel 5 Enediel , Zuriel , Hanaliel 3 Vercbiel^MnrieL * / ****tn***^ *; # * #: #*. ■ 300 200 ICO 90 $0 70 60 50 40 30 20 IO 9 87. 78 9 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 200 200 2,00. Z H I K A M N S Q n P S T. 13 14 15 16 i7 lb 19 20 21 22 23 24- ? % o * $ v r v $ "£ & Uo 7 H jo 20 30 4.0 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300. G H I K L M N F ®R ST V X. h\\$ this wilt wonderfully advance your preparations and knowledge of dif- Here LlB.2. The Holy Guide 1 63 Herelies a wonderful virtue, worth,and efficacy in Numbers, as well to good, as to bad ; and they fay, Angels may be as fre- quently converft with as Devils, by the direction and help of the Figure before ; and the eminent Philosophers do unani- moufly teach, and learned Doftors, both in Divinity, in the Law, and Do&ors of Phyftck , and inoccult myfteries in Chi- miftry , and in Rofie Crucian fecrets pra- aife. As St. Hieronty Auftin^ Origen, Ambrofi y Gregery Nazianzen, Atbanafius y B£filiuf,Hil- latins, RubanHSy Bede, and many more, as #. Lully, Diodorus Sicnlw , &c. confirm. Hence Hillarm.in his Commentaries up- on the Pfalmes teftifies , that the feventy Elders, according to the efficacy of Num- bers, brought the Pfalmes into order: Ra- hanus alfoa famous Doftor, compofed an excellent book of the vermes of Num- bers. But now how great vertues Num- bers have in nature,is manifeft in the herb which is called Cinquefoil^ i e. five ieaved- graffe, for this refills poyfon by vertue of the dumber five; it drives away Devils, conduceth to expiation , and one leaf of it taken two times in a day in Wine, cures the Feaver of one day ; three the Tertian Feaver,four the Quartan; in like manner four grains of the feed of Jurnfole being drunk* J 64 The Holy Guide. LlB.2. drunk, cures the Quartan 3 but three the Tertian : In like manner Vervain cures Feavers,beink drunk in Wine W\t\\Aurum fotahile, and the third joynt cures the Tertian, the fourth the Quartan -, a Ser- pent if he be once (truck with a fpear dy- eth; if twice, recovers (trength. Thefe and many others we read of in feveral Authors ; we mult know now whence thefe are done , which certainly have a caufe, which is a various proporti- on of various Numbers amongft them- felves : there is alfo a wonderful experi- ment cf the Number of feven, that every feventh Male born without a Female coming betwixt, hath power to cure the Kings Evil by his touch alone, or word: Alio every feventh Daughter that is born, Rofie Crucians fay, wonderfully helpeth forward the birth of Children , and fo doth the Sun give the like vertue to Au- rum potable, as Dr. Culpepper often experi- enced 5 neither is the natural Number here confidered, but the formal conside- ration that is in the Number: And thefe Numbers are not in vocal , or Numbers of Merchants,, buying and felling, but in rational, formal and natural : Thefe are diftinft Myfteries of God and Nature j but he that knows how to Joyn together the vocal Numbers and natural with di- vine., LiB. 2. The Holy Guide. I6<; vine, and order them Telefmaticaily into the fame harmony , (hall be able to work, and know wonderful things , as the Kajfe Crucians have faid this Book teaeheth . The Rofie Crucians prognofticate many things by the numbers ot names,and you mu ft know , that fimple Numbers (ignitie Divine things : Number of ten Celefiial, number, of an hundred Terreitnal 3 num- ber of a thoufand, thofe things that mall be in future age ; befides feeing the parts of the mind are according to an Arithme- tical mediocrity, by reafon of the iden- tity, orequalityof excefs, coupled toge- ther '■> but the body, whofe parts differiii their greatnefs, is according to a Geome- trical mediocrity compounded : but an Animal confifts of both , viz, foul and body, according to the mediocrity which is fuitable to Harmony : Hence it is that Numbers do work very much upon the Soul, Figures upon the Body, and Harmo- ny upon the whole Animal : And one fayes Numbers Have in their natures a ntoft fiery force, And alfo faring from a celeftial ' fource, God gave to man mind and fpeech, which are thought to be a gift f the fame vertue and immortality : The Omnipo- tent \ 6 6 The Holy Gride. L I B- 2 tent God hath by his Providence divided the fpeech of men into divers languages, which languages have, according to their diveriky, received divers and proper cna« rafters of writing, coniifting in their cer- tain order,number,and figure, not fo dif- pofed by chance, nor by trie weak judge- ment of man , but fromabove, wheieby they agree with the celeftial and divine bodie?, and vermes-, but before all notes of languages the Hebrew is moft f acred in thefiguresof characters, points, of vow- els, and tops of accents, as confiding in matter, form, and fpirit. The poiition of the Sekrs being fiift made in the feat of God , which is Hea- ven,after the figures of them are moft fully formed the letters of the celeftial myfte- ries, as by their figure, form and (ignilica- tion,fo by the numbers (ignified by them, as alfo by the various harmony of their conjunction * he therefore that will find them ouc,muft by each joyning together of the Letters fo long examine them until the Voice of God is manifeft , and the framing of the moft fecred Letters and their Numbers be opened and difcover- ed ; for hence voices and words have efficacy in Magical works, becaufe that in which Nature firft exercifed efficacy, is the Voice of God : But of thefe you may read- largely Lib. 2. lhe Holy Guide. 167 largely in my Temple of jyifdome, a Book of lelefmet and Geomancy. The Letters ii% the Figure of the World gomg before , have double Numbers of their Order, viz, extended, which (imply exprefs of what number the Letters are, according to their Order , and colle&ed, which recollect with themfelves , the Numbers of all the preceding Letters 5 alio they have integral numbers, which refukfrom thename,sof Letters, accord- ing to their various manner of num- bnng, the vertues of which numbers he that fhall know,after our AxiomatafliM be able in every tongue to draw forth won- derful myfteries by their Letters engra- ven, call down Angels, Spirits, and Souls of men. And Eugenias brings in a Rofie- Crucian . that brought him acquainted with Etherialmen , and him doth Theo- didad.usx.hws bring in fpeakingof himfeif, force me be fits, with this thick cloud ldrive y Tops the blew Billowy knotty Oaks up rive ; Congeal fo ft [now , and beat theearthwiih hail, When I my brethren in the air aftail, For that's our field 5 we meet with fuch a Jhock, That thundering skies with our encounter* rock* And 168 The Holy Guide. L1B.2. And cloud-Jlruckzlightning flajhes fronton high, When through the top of all the world Iflie, J force death in her hollow caves, I make 1h: Ghojts to tremble ,& the ground to quakf. Solomon knew by the Axiom at a how the world was made, and the operation of the Elements,the beginning, ending, and the nitdift of times, the alterations of the turning of the Sun , and the change of ieafons, the circuit of year*, and the por- tion of Stars, the natures of living Crea- tures, and the furies of wild Beafts, the violence of winds, and the reafoning of iherr,the diversities of plants,and the ver- t ues of roots; what things have been paft,and what things are to come. There are alfo other myfterious Truths j Hap- pincfr, Knowledge, long Life, Health, Youth, Riches, VVifdom and Vertue; how to alter, change, cure and amend all Dif- cafes in young or old, and the Art of pre- paring Rofie Crucian Medicines , and their Rifles toraife the dead; all which they have experienced and fitted to the feveral Complexions of men. but I'hall teach vyou thefe in the following Book. Where- fore according to the Do&rine of our Lord and Saviour JefusChrijl, Firjlfeek^you the LiB.2. The Holy Guide. 169, the Kingdom of God, and all theft things JhaJI be given you, Siju Jehovah, ~Deu$ memjlluminaverii Me, Lux font lembra tne&. THE THE <2? HolyGuide: Leading the Way to Long Life, Health, Youth, Blefiednefi, Wifdome and Ver- tHC) and to Change^ Cure, Alter and Amend the Hate of the Body. All being made plain and eafie to mean Capacities. By fohn Heydon, Gent. | pttovotw* A Servant of God and Se- | cretary of Nature. Audeignh vocem. LONDON. Printed by f. M. 1662, f ?i^¥0»¥¥¥f Wf f If IB TO THE TRVLY NOBLE BY ALL TITLES, Sir John Hanmcr, Barronet. Sir, . YOur Worthinefs and gratefuli ac* ceptance of this kjnd of Learning^ which Ipromifed your honour able f elf % 1 would put fortb 9 is now flown to your Temple of Safety 9 Knowledge^ erfeSion^ or acquired parts for refuge and prote- Sionrfrom the wickednejfe of itinerant^ P * fern* The Epiftle Dedicatory. Jcandalous Pulpit Sycophants^ School- SophiJlers 9 andfome of my own profejfi- on^Lawyers : 1 mean the Phanatick, lia- ble of Gown-men 2 that rage again ft the King and Eifhops 9 whom God preferve out of their power : thefe contend againji me continually^ and contemn that which they do not know. But take heed ye un- wife among the people \ Oyefooles^ when will ye underfiand ? they judge they know not wha^ and condemn without evidence, this Holy Guide, which a- bout tenyeares pajt § withfome others of affinity thereto^ for my private exercife andfatisfa&ion I had at ieifure^ compo- fed$ which being communicated unto one y it became common unto many^ and was by tranfcription fuccejfively corru- pted 9 untill it arrived in a mott depraved copie to DoSor Nicholas Culpepper, and from him many had Copies^ which fome highly eUeemed 9 and others abu- fed : it came to pafs about feven y tares paft, jfl)ewedmy true Virgin invention in manufcript to the learned Mathema- tician Mr. John Gadbury, who was then TheEpiftle Dedicatory. then in company with Captain George Wharton and other Gent lemen,of which one had a Copy, but imperfeft $ and therefore knowing me to be the Author^ intreated me to pubbp) mine : / fufpe- Sed my ability \ becaufe it wasfet downe many year es pafi, when I was very youngs and was the fenje of my Conceptions at that time, not an immutable law unto my advancing judgement at all times 5 and therefore there might be many things therein plaufible unto my pajjed appre- henJion % which arenot agreeable to my pre- fentfelfyt here fore unwilling any work of mine fiould be printed.But at laji 1 was perfwaded^ Now the enemies of Kmg Charls & the Bifiops^ery proudly ,with full mouthy bitter hatred, envy, malice and calumnies, kindred me from putting of it forth. Hence I began to be at a Stand, whether ifiouldput forth the reji of the hookworm ^ whilefi I did doubt that 1 Jhould by this means expofe my felf to public^ cenfure, and as it were casimyfelfoutofthefmokpinto the fire, * certain rude fear feifed upon we % leji ? 3 */ The Epiftle Dedicatory. by putting them forth Iflwuldjeem more effenjive then officious to you^and expofe your Worfhip to the envy of malicious carpers and tongues of detra&er / 3 whileji thefe things trouble me with a various defparation 9 the qulckpefs of your under - fianding) exaff discretion ^ upright neffe of judgement^ Religion without Super- Jiition^ and other moji known Vertues inyou^your authority and integrity be- yond exception^ which can eaftly chf \ and bridle the tongues of (landerers 9 re* moved my doubting^ and informed me to fet upon that again more boldly ', which I had almoji left off 9 by reafon of defpaire : therefore (mott honoured Sir) take in good part) this bool^ 9 in which we fhew the myfierm of Ajironomy and Geomancy i Art and Nature 9 CeleJiial and Terreffiall, all things being openedand ptanifejied 5 which experienced Anti- quity makes relation of % and which came to my knowledge^ hat thefe fecrets of R. Crucians (hitherto negleUed % and not fully apprehended by men of later times) pay with y our proteff ion be by me % afttt the ——I I I ■ ■ I I —————— The Epiftle Dedicatory. t he fiewing of Natural Vertues propofed to them that are ftudiont and curious of thefe fecrets:by which let him thatfhal he profit ed 9 andrecieve benefit, give you the thanks, who have been the occafion of this publication, and fetting of it at li- berty to be feen abroad, wearing the Ho- nourable Title of May i. SIR, I66u Your humble Servant, fohn Heydon. P4 THE Lib. 3. The Boly Guide. tfp n£f9 trtp «!f? t&v $Sp t&r? tai/a ^Ir? ttfp . tXT9 tKf9 tMf^ «w tazp «w + 1 . Ifow to mdkf one live to two hundred years : 2. John Macklains onr Countrey man and ojhtrs : 3. Tolicy to prevent cccafions : 4. Hf//tf from Egypt ^Arabia : 5. ISft- thing can beget and mr\v]>in h [fife: 6. Ike heads of doing caufes: j.lhemf- dome of God : £. A team of Fire : y.Moift- nejfe : 10. Of wale and female jlvffe '* it. Mixtures: 12. Of the jiuffe cloaihed with wind : j 3 , C/f /j^ 0/Ye #?/i ^/zt 0/ The Holy Guide. L1E.3 Heaven : 1 4. The fecret heat 115. The ftarry fire and fat of Aether :. f 6. Earth and iVater: 17. Aire and Fire: \%.T>if« ferences of beads -.19. Of Hair e and Hoof : 20. Example : 21. Of tnafyng and peri- ling : 22. The means to Long Life : 23. The food of Life: 24. The c aufe of Long JJfe\ 25. The truths of Nature'. 26. The Ju- slice of God and End of Man : 27. Natu- ral! My sleries ; 28. Of the clear ne fle of mans body: 29. The Jufiice of Nature: 30. The wayes of Nature: 31. Methu- falem: 33, A long Race: 34. Helps to Long Life : 3 <5 . The life of Gyants : 36. King Argathon'.? 6jfc : 37. Plato'* Common wealth , 38. enafled by the Lsw of Nature^ what, &c. 39. The food of Mars : 40. Hungry fpirits : 41. Mixt Bo- dies, and their four enemies : 42 b Tfo chwgable world and courfe of Creatures : 43. Natural means to Long Lift : ^,Soul 9 Life and Heat of natural things : 45. Of the Element of Fire : 46. Of the nature of Aether : 47. Of the food of Aether : 48. Of the unfeen firfl Moifiure and Being of Life: 49. Of the firfl fluffe of the fine Oyleof the food of life: 50. Of a plaine -pattern of adjournment of life : $ i* Na- tures pattern not counterfeit^ or the blood and flejb of feed; 53. Caufe of Life: 44-. In* LiB.3- The Holy Guide. 54. lnftru&ion and noutifhing; ^. An example of Cardanas: 5 6. Our finale Oyles 57^ Natures Works equal in weight and truth. 1. T TEre we have met with the com- JCjL mon argument , wherewith the unlearned ufe to deface this goodly fe- quence ; we muft go forward and encoun- ter with the learned, who becaufe the great deeds and effe&s that are promifed, that is,to make all men long liv'd,health- full, young, wife,blefled and vertuous.are above their skill, or of their Anceftors^ the Grecians rate both the works impof- fible, and the workmans way falfe and guileful ; I muft, I fay, prove,according to my task appointed, that thofe great acts and deeds may be done & performed by other and weaker means then Hermes Me- dicines : And this I muft do with more pains and diligence, becaufe this way an entry once made in their hearts, the great marvellous truth of thisfecret, may the more eaiily come in and take pofleili- on. 3 . But of fuch variety of hard and flip- pery matter, where were it beft to fet out > which way firft to take ? were it not meet the means and helps unto pleafure fliould be firft cleared and read before we come 4 7 he Holy Guide. LlE.j come to pleafurc it felf > and among them to give long Life the foremoft place, if not for his worthinefle, yet for his be- hoof and neceflity, being needful iti all Common-wealths and private perfons ; firfttofeek to live, before to live well, though that unto this end: then let us« fee what is long Life , and how all men may reach unto lohn Mackjain. 3. But why do we make fuch great haft> we had need be flow and advifed in fo great a matter, and to look before we venter on folong away, and of fo many dayes journey, that we be well provided and furnifhed of all things : wherein I hope, if I have not of mine own ; or if af- ter the thrifty manner, when lam well ftored my felf; yet I borrow to prevent lending, although I took upon truftfo much as would ferve this turn, it fhall be noftainuntomy credit; but be rather deemed a fafeand wary way,to cut offoc-* cafion of robbery, both at home and a- broad, efpecially if I take it up of fuch men as are rnoft famous and well be* loved. 4. Thefe (hoAd be my friends of J&gypt and Arabia (though we have their fecret help now and then ) the beft able indeed, and the neareft unto me, if they were fo well known and beloved in the world ) LlB. 3. The Holy Guide world ; but becaufe they be not, I will fly to that other tide of Greece 9 and to the moft renowned there , and beft liked : Hypocrates 9 Flato, and Arijlotk , whom I doubt not to find very free and willing in this matter : Let us then awake our old ftudies out of deep, and lye to them, what need many words.? After greeting, and the matter broken, they make me this an- fwer joyntly together : God, becaufe he was Good , did not grieve to have others enjoy his Goodnefs, that is, to be, and to be well,meaning to make a worldf though Ariffotle withdrew his hand herein) full of all kind and everlafting changeable things, firft made all,and blended them in one whole confufed lump together, born up by his own weight bending round up- on it felf. 5. Then feeing it lay ftill , and that nought could beget and work upon it felf, he forted out and fundrcd away roundabout, a fine lively piece (which they call Heaven) for the Male-Mover and Workman, leaving ftill the reft fas grofle and deadly ) fit for the Female, to contain the working andfafhioning,which we term the four beginnings for Ele- ments) Earthy Water r Air, and Fire*, and thereof fprung the love which we fee yet between them , andthcgreac defiretobe joy»ed The Holy Guide. L1B.3. joyned againe and coupled together* ! 6. Then that there might be no num- ber and confufion of workmen and do* ing caufes , but all to flow from one head, as he is one head, drew all force of working , and vertue of begetting , into a narrow round compafs , which we call the Sun,from thence to be lent outspread and beftowed all about the world , both above and below , which again meeting together , made one general heat, light, nature , life and foul of the world the caufeot all things. 7. And becaufe it becomes the might, wifdome and pleafureof fuch a Builder, to make and rule the infinite variety of things here below , and not evermore one felf-fame thing ■> he commanded that one light in many to run his eternal and ftint- lefs race, too and fro, this way and that way, that by their variable prefence, ab- fence and meeting , they might fitly work the continual change of flitting Crea- tures. 8. This Soul, which Plato calls the ever moving mover, quite contrary to AriJiotle 9 tftytemdh which he himfelf conftrueth , a movable mover, ( that we may mervail how TuUy could tranflate it, as to make it all one with Plato, nnlefs Luciam Gallons milled him y which is found in fome cop- pies* Li B. 3. Tbe Holy Guide. 7 pies that he might be an eternal mover, is,in Nature)and being a moil fubtile and fmall beam,lpark of heavenly fire,in pro- perty and quality, by his cleannefs, light, and finenefs, hot ■> and for his moiftnefs, withall temperate, as appearethto him that bendeth his mind upon it. 9. 1 f you doubt of this moiftnefs, think nothing is made without mingl ing, which is by drawing in, and breaking fmali toge- ther the whole ftuffe, when a dry heat draweth out and fcattereth the fine from the great , and thereby wafteth and nar- roweth all things, making nothing: As for example, Dung hatchstb an egg 3 and quichpeth anything apto receive life, when warm aftes will never do it 5 what need we more > Imagine an heavenly flameby a good burning water, which flaming upon the hand on a dry cloath , heateth them both gently,without heatorpunifhments and yet this Sunny beam is not moift of it felf , before it is tempered with the rnoift- nefs of his wife, the Moon* to make it apt for generation. Then Hermes calls the Svn and the Moon the Father and the Mother of all things. 10. Now the ftufFeand female, to be fit to fufitr working, muftbefirft open, that is,foft an d moift,and then not one,nor yet many lfc c things , leaft in both t hefe cafes chey 8 TheHoly Guide. Llfc^. theyfhould ftand ftillthefame, and not when they be flirted by the workman, rife and ft rive , bruife and break one ano- ther, fitly by continual change, until at laft they come unto a conftant reft and ftay; and that upon fmall occalion the fame confent might jaragain , and come and change the wifhed end and purpofelof the work , And therefore God caft in at firft , the known four fighting enemies ; yet in the foftand openftufFe, there are but two of them. Earth and Water in one mixture, feen and extant at the begin- ning , before the painful foul draws out and works the reft, Fire out of Earth, and out of Water that breath-like and windie thing called Air. 1 1. Sothar if there be much Earth, lit- tle Water,and great heat to mingle them, fire will (hew it felf and bear the fway 5 if but fmall heat upon the fame meafure of Earth and Water 3 Earth will rule the roft ; if on that other fide , upon fmall ftoreof Earth, and much Water, but a fmall heat of working; the thing will fall out to be raw and waterifh ; if upon the fame quan- titie, and ftronger heat, there arifeth ari Airie , which is termed a fat and oy ly bo- dy. 12. Wherefore when the Soul comes down by theAfpe&s of Stars ( Read the Har- iiB.3. the Holy Guide. ~~9 ^ ffaFmoHy of the World ) upon the ftuffe, cloathed with a fine windy coat of the cleaneft Air next unto Heaven, called JEtker (without the breaking' of which means 3 the twoextreams and unacquaint- ed ftrangers would never bargain and agree together) by his m oft mild heat it moves it,and alters it very diverfly , ma- king many! forts and kinds of things differing according to the ftrength of the one, and the obedience of the 6- thcr. 15. And foby reafon in that fepa ration of that fine and male part , at firft, the ftuffe was throughly toft and mingled, and the heat of Heaven thereby ( like a hot Summer after a wet Spring ) very fitly \ all which , man and all were made alike , without any feed fown , otherwife then by the great Seeds-man cf Heaven, upon the common ftufFe h^rchandWa- ter 3 and isftill feen in the coiimion tillage, yet ufed in thofe lame and imtilled Wights, which fome call Start-ups, and fprung out from themfelves, As we may be calily led to thinks if we confider how, ttot.onlyall kinds of plants, without all fettingorfowing, grow up by themfelves in fome places 5 and fome kind of Fifti in Q^ the jo The Holy Guide. LlB 3; the Sea are only Females 5 but alfo what plenty of fifti there abounds in that fro- zen Country 5 for the great heat and fat- nefs of the waters 5 and chiefly that upon the (limy and hot lands of JEgyp , there are yet fome bloody and perfeft Land-wights ( as Hares and Goats, &c) all made and fafliio- ned. 14. But becaufe afterward the well mingled and fat fine fhiffe, and ftrong working heat failed fas it muft needs in time) and yet the great Lord would have the continual flitting,change,and fuccefli- 011 hold the fame, and fit caufes were daily kept by continual fucceflion within thebodyof the perfect Wights , theftuffe in the (he, and the heat in both, yea, and as far as need required in feeded Plants alfo. Now we muft underftand as well , that this heavenly Soule, when it is fo cloathed with that windy body, is cal- led fpirit fnot only moveth and wor- keth with his heat) but alfo for food wafteth the ftuffe -, for nothing that is made, is able to bear up his ftate and being without his proper and like food and fuftenance. See my Harmony of the mrld. 15; Then L1B.5. The Holy Guide. tl 15. Then asourgroG fire here l^ow feedeth on weather and wind, called Air, as upon his lighted meat ; and as it in his due place , is too thin and fcattered, fp reading the figure fo far as it followeth his food, until atlaftit vanifheth co no- thing, unlefs it be plentifully heaped and crowded up together, and fo kept in a narrow (hell of water, which is called oyle or fatnefs; evea fo it is between the fineftarry fire and his like food, the fine fat of iEther, for that caufe befides the divine purpofe abovefaid, it cometh down inpoft intothefe quarters, to find and dreffe himfelf {tore of meat, as ap- pears by his tarrying; for asfoon as his food is fpent he flyeth away as faft , and leaves his Hoftatiix andfevens uncared for. I was about to tell you the courfeof the divers forts and fuits of thefe lower Creatures, but thllthere was a great puffe of matter came between and fwept me away. This now being paflfed over, I will go forwards. 1 6. Then if the fuffering ftuife be grofs, foul andtough,and the making heat very fmall and ealie , as it is within and under the ground, things are made, which they call Metals,or rather by the Arabick word, Minerals, little, broken, altered, or chan- ged 3 but the grofs beginnings , Earth Qjs and 1 2 The Holy Guide. Lib. 3 andBfater ( Earth efpecially ) rule ftill *, anclthe life and foul, as it were, in a dark dungeon, faft (hut up, and chained, as not able to ftir and mew it felf at all. When the ftufle is finer and fofter, with greater heat upon it, then will arife a rooted and growing thing, called a Plant, better min- gied,and fmaller,and further broken from the low and foul beginnings 5 and the life of Heaven (hall have morefcope , becaufe Wind, or Air, or Water (and yet Water chiefly ) fwayeth the matter. 17. But if the Soul be yet more migh- ty, and the ftuffe yet finer, he is able (Air and Fire) but that above this exalted, to Chew himfelf a quicker workman , and to make yet a finer piece of work, moving forward,and by mighty force perceiving 5 but by reafon thefe twocaufes, paffingby thofe degrees, to mount and rife at laft, there is an excellent altdfierie kind con* trived, over our kind, I mean, moft throughly, and fair, and finely wrought, even fofat indeed, that he may not eatily feem made at all of thefe all- making feeds, the four beginnings : Whence it is, that when a Corps is confumed with fire, there are found fcarcefix ounces of clear earth remaining ; which finenefsof body gives occafion to the greateft quicknefs and freedome of the Soul, and ability to per- Lib. J. The Holy Guide. 13 perform fas his duties of life ) moving and perceiving ; yea, and (hall I puc in underftanding alfo > For albeit God hath imbreathed us with another more fine and clean mover,called Mind,for a fpecial and divine purpofej yet that mind, as well as the foul above, is all one of it fel f in all places, and working diverfly, ac- cording to thofe divers places, as we (hall lee more at large hereafter. 1 8, Then you fee all the differences of the four great heads and kinds , which contain all things; yea and of many lefler degrees and fteps lying within every one of thefe , which I named not before - y as alfo of fundry forts (not worth the naming ) cf doubtful and needlefs things, touching and partaking on each fide of the four great ones ( or between the firft two , ftones budding like herbs in the Scottifh Sea ; between Plants and Beafts,that fprung Ap^ or rather hairy wild fnen^ between beads and us) to proceed from the divers mixtures of their bodies If you cannot quickly perceive the mat- ter,behold at once the outward fhapesand fa(hions,as they here go down a (hort pair of ftairs before you. 19* Do you not fee man alone, through his exceeding fine and light body, carried up and mounted with a mighty heat of Q^3 Heaven s 14 The Holy Guide. Lib. 3 Heaven , of an upright ftature and carri- age of himfelf that his divine wit might be freed from the clog of the fle(h > when other Wights , from the contrary caufe, (which thegrofs or earthly leavings, or excrements, of hair, horn,hoof, and fuch like declare ) are quite otherwife difpo- fed,as we fee, towards the ground, their like companion; and fo the lefshotand fine they be, that is, the like the earth, the nearer they bend unto her ,, being lefle of fiafureitill 3 and after that n\any-footed to fupport them; but at length (ootlefs and groveling , until they come to their heads downward, and there they ftay not, but pane quite over , and degene- rate from Wights to Plants, and from thence, if I might tarry about them , I would fend them down ftill through all the fteps of them and Minerals, until they come to their main reft and ftay, from whence they all fprung clean Earth and Water. But I think it be now high time to take my leave of thefe Tbilofophersand Phyfitians, and to fet forwards as foon as I have packt up my fhiffe round together, efpeci- ally the beft and moft pretious things, my Medicines. 2c. Then we gather by that inlarged Speech, one chief and notable rule of learning. Li B. 3 . ?he Holy Guide. 1 5 learning, that the fhape, nature, being, perfe&ion , and all the difference in all things here below , fpringeth from the mixture and temper of the ftuffe and be- ginnings y the doing , making and work- ing caufe, that makes, mingles, broacheth andfetsall a running, to be apiece of the finer part of the whole, parted and packt up together in the Sun : of which finer part, fome remaineth ftill in the raw and rude ftufFe fecretly hid and placed : other- fome more freely,in the half-made ftuffe, called feed j and in finer feed yet more lively, and in man moft at liberty^except- ing where 1 faid it was free indeed from all Jrind of body ; and yet all thefe but one and the felf-fame thing , called foul, life, heavenly and natural heat. 2 1 . Thus means divine Hippocrates when he faith, nought is made, and nothing perifheth, but all are altered,and changed up and down by mingling : And again, that no Wight can die,unlefs all fall;w here he is moft agreeable, and jumpeth with thefe grounds and rules, and with the whole web of our Rofie Crucian Phyfick. If any man doubt of the other two, Flats and Ariftotlejet him read their books with heed, and he (hall find them, where they fpeak naturally , and by the light of hu- mane reafon, to draw dill towards this Q 4 head 1 6 the Holy Guide. L1B.3 bead and point of truth, though they come toftay fometime, milled, I think, by the over weening wifdome of Aftro- nomy, to the Infinite variety of divers naturedand conditioned Stars above, and fiich like Influences caufingthe like end- lefs odds and differences of all things. 22. Let us now,i fay, tet forward in our firft dayes journey to long life, unfolding iirft what it is, and the canfe thereof, and laftly, the common and high way to it. It feems hard foe : man to appoint jffhat bounds of Hie are large and long enough for Man,unlefs God ( who know- eth beft both the meafure of pleafure and" happinefs fit for him 9 and the race of time meet for him) firft fet and marked tlem-, to that the greateft age and far- theft time that the luftieft men and beft difpofed bodies , both by kind and diet, have at any time reached and lived , may well , by the great and goodwill of our great Land-lord, be fet the bounds, ftint and end of life, large enough to hold all the pleafures meet for mankind , and the mark which we may all aim and level our indeavours at , yea and with fure hope to hit and reach it, and no further, isabout fn hundred and fifty years, as you (hall hear aiion. Now Lib.?. The Holy Guide. 1 7 Now if there do three caufes meet to (he making up of things, and thereon leaneth all their being jthe ftuffe, the mo- ver, and the meat of the mover, which is the fatnefs of the fluffe , then fure the caufe of their long being and continu- ance in their eftate can be nothing elfe but the favour and goodnefs of thofe three caufes. 23. The foul and heat of heaven is good and favourable to Wights ( to let the reftgofar more dark and further off my purpose ) when (he poures her felf plentifully upon them ; for there can be no other odds in one and the felf-fame thing in all place?;, but the fat food of life which they call the firft moifture, and is the fineft piece of all that is lying hid and unfeen iu the found feccnd part of Wights, and yet by skill to be fetched out andfet before us„muft not only be plen- tiful and great in (lore, to match the feed- ing foul, but alfo faft and fine, that by his finenefs he may be both friendly and like to live, and Aiery,or rather ^therial (we muft leave thefe words without handling) to keep himfelf both in cold and heat flowing, and that through his fatnefs and clofenefs, (which they call in La- tine , Denfum or Solidum ) that is through his much ftuffe in a narrow room he may be 1 8 The Holy Gride. L1B.3 be more lading and fie to continue. Now the ftuffe and body is beft when it isfaft, and fine alfo, to hold and hang all to- gether , and that other to give free fcope without flopping or let , unto the conti- nual and wife race of life. 24. Then to make a fum of all, the caufe of long life is a raft fine body, fprinkled and feafoned with much like finemoifture, andftoreof heavenly heat. If this matter needed any further proof, 1 could eafily by cutting up the nature of things, fo lay it open before you, as your own eyes mould witnefs and fee the fame ; but if it need to fome,they (hall fee fome- thing , and that fufficient to content them. For the firft, Arijlotle faith, and we find it true by experience, that they livelong- eft in hot Countries for their dry , found, foft,and fine bodies ; but chiefly for their finenefs,yielding free recourfe and paflfage unto life \ tor age and kindly death come of rottennefs , which flows from the ftil- nefs of hear, andflacknefstofalve andre- freflivhe part?: Touching the reft, to wit, that much heat aiivi much good fatnefs are a caufe of long life: mark the fhort life of all thofe Wights,that either want them by kind, as the maimed and imperfect ones, orwafte them Lib. 3. The Boly Guide. 19 them by motion, as the male Greyhound of Lacedenton was , againft the courfe of kind, (horter-lived then the Bitch, for his pains in running 5 and the gelt male Hound , and fpayed female , hunt better, and live longer then others. And the Cock-Sparrow lives but half fo long as the Hen , and yet this but three years for tlieir xenfty $ the world is full of fuch examples : ;and behold again , the Ele- phant on the other tide, for the great help and favour of all the caufes above the reft, as may appear by iheir great fruit and effects in him,that is^ftrength,bignefs, and ftomack, being able to bear the ground work of a Cattle of fifteen armed men, to eat 9. bufhels at a time, and to drink 14. firkins ("to indure and hold out much longer then any of the re a , and to live ( Ariftotle is mine Author in the ftoryj three hundred years in all Now we know what long life is,and the caufe thereof, let us fee whether all men may reach it or uo, and then which way they may reach it. 2q. At thefirft all mankind by the will and appointment of kind, was found 3 and lufty, and lived long, and all the failing and corruption now adayes (which falfly feemethaweak condition of our nature) crept in through diforder in our felves, by 20 The Holy Guide. LlB.j by little and little, 8c fo by (owing ftill the like children, itfpread it felf atlaft deeply rooted over all, and made it, as it were, a certain ftate, nature and kind of men ; wherefore by good order in our fel ves , it may be reformed and brought back again unto the ancient Eftate ; but how may we prove this? If God and Nature have or- dained man unco a divine end above the reft; and yet fome beafts ( as Theophrafius for a wonder complains ) live longer then our common rate , yea and longer then any bounds above fet ; certainly we ought to do as much and more, by the rate of nature , and of all right and rea- fon,and fome did at firft, before we fell by our default, which may be mended. 26. But leaft I may happen to deal with fome,who will neither grant the Juftice of God, nor yet yield to the end of man; with fomej fay,that have fo far put off all humanity, I will bring them to natural caufes ; 1 will open and lay before them, both the forts and fruits of Wights,! mean, of men and Beafts; that they being ' a monftrous doubtful kind between both, that is, Beafts within,cloathed only with outward fhape of Men , may the better Judge of both fas in like cafe they formed of the like mifhapen Monftersthe Poet* know my meaning, it is not worth the Lib. 3 . The Half Guide. 2 1 the flouri(h of a chad and modeft Pen ) which hath in kind the more caufe to live long; that feeing at laft the worfer Wights to overgo us in life, and to run to the very goaleitfelf, and yet to have re- ceived leffe caufe from nature, they may be driven by force of reafon to yield, that we have a better kind and worfer cuftome, and that we did and might livelong, but for our own fault, which maybe reform- ed. 27. To begin with the foul and natural heat for his worthinefs,let us fee which of them is indcwed with more (tore of him, that is, of the chief caufe of long life $ manwalketh upright, when the reft are thrown to the ground , becaufe they lack the force of this light and afcending heat,to bear up the weight of their bodies, which we have abundantly h but if we leave the outward (hape and look into them , we (hall by the great forefight of natural Wights, which are hot and full of blood 3 have againft the root and fpring thereof, to root and temper the fame, a contrary in place and property fet, the brain, I mean fomemore andfomelefs, ftill according to the behoof and requefl of the heart j in fomnch that they that have leffe blood and faiall heat within them, as not needing any cooler, have no brain at all, 28. 32 fheHoly Guide. LiB'3» 28. Then by certain race and courfecf kind, if that be true which all Phyfitians & Philofophers hold,thata man hath the greateft brain of all Wights-, it muft needs follow, that he hath the greateft (tore of heat alfo : but enter further into them, and you (hall fee man by how much more hegoeth beyond a beaft in wit, fomuch to burn in heat above him: for wit fpring- eth out of the clearnefs of the bodie. And this out of heat, as I will prove in his place hereafter. 29. Now if this firft point be done and granted, the next is quickly made, even as one match is made by another. It ftandeth with the juftice of nature that makes not in vain, to match this greedy heat with ftore of good meat, that is, of faft and fine Etherial firft moifturefuita- bly, or elfefure, faith Heraclitus, the offi- cers of Juftice, the Fairies would foon ap- prehend her. To be ftiort, both this and that, and the third likewife, a clofefine bodie and all is cleared, if it be fo that man in making is moft clear and finely mixt, and broken of all the lower crea- ture;?, as we heard even now decreed in the Councel of the beft Philofophers and Rofie Crucian Doftors •■> for if nought makes but heat, then nought maketh well but much heat 5 if there were no other odds irt LiB.g- 7 he Holy Guide 23 in fouls, as was above-faid : and if the beginnings be well and finely mingled, andtheconco&ion hold, they mnft needs gather themfjves in clofe together alfo to make another cauie, yea, and the laft ; for what is hue oyle and fitnefs, but wa- ter wherewith we flovv, as our brain de- clareth, throughly mingled and raifed in- to an airy, or rather into an Etherial clofe fubftance 5 but if you will not ftand to this degree, then once for all confider and weigh but this one example, that al- beit man be more given to luft, then any other Wight, and thereby drying up the body, it plainly appearech more then in any other, and weakeneth all the helps of long Life together, both the moifture, that knits and holds the fiame, and chat which feeds our heat, and this all 5 andfo the fummeofiife, which is yet due by nature, he payeth before his day to his own wantonnefs, yet he livethand hold- eth out longer then almoft any other; that we may plainly fee, that if he lived as chaftly,andin other points as orderly as the reft, he might far pafs and over-run themall, in this race of life and continu- ance. Butmethinksl hear them whifper, that I forgot my felf, and the bounds of my long Life, when I make men able to live as 24 The Holy Guide. L1B.3 as long, and longer then any beaft ; for to let pafs that Hart, Badger and Raven, which overtake the longed: life of our old men ; fince the Elephant, as we have heard, goeth far beyond the very bounds of agej efpecially the Raven, whom Euripides will have to live nine of our ages. 30. There may feem fome matters,but chiefly the laft uncurable, and yet they 'are indeed light and eafie, and the laft moftofalUl mean the Rawn; for if there was never yet man of found judgement and knowledge in the waies of [nature , thatalowed the ftory (and Ariftotleby name condemns it, when he gives the Elephant the longeft life of all Wights, and man next to him) what? mould we fearch after Poets Records? belides,doth not one among them confefs himfelf, they are not to be believed, and held as witneiTes> doth not Flato, once a Poet, and then a wife Philofopher, chafe them up and down in all places ? and in one place fayeth, they are befldes themfelves, when they fit on their Mufes (tools, and run L like a fpring pouring out all that comes > Are they not all, in wife mens ac* count, the greateft enemies to God, good manners, and all right and true know- ledge, that ever the world or the Devil bred.? 31* IS~ L1B.3 . the Holy Guide. 2 5 j I. But I Hide too far unawares; and if we muftof force receive this aged Ra- ven, yet perhaps there mall be no great hurt received : and I cannot fee why we may not match him with Mtthuja/em y and fome other aged Fathers in holy IVrit^ reported to have lived as many yeares as nine of our ages comes to, with ad- vantages is not enough to fay that which fome fay, thofe yeares are to be meant for moneths, and not as we account them; for albeit I know the Egyptians reckon (fo wcmay fee in P/i#y, where fome of them arefaidto live a thoufand years apiece 3 that is, fo mahy moneths) yet is agreed among the Divines, men beft skilled in thefe matters, that the Jewes account was otherwife, even as we and all other Na- tions make it. But if this ancient ftory of our holy men be a thing in doubt, or cer- tainly untrue, or to be meant of moneths, yet your aged Raven may go with it, and the Father of the tale together 5 and we may, when we will, pafs to the Elephant. Arijiotle indeed is the Author of this ixo- rie , that the Elephant liveth three hun- dred years ; how then (hall we miilike in like manner of this man, and refufe his witncfs> I cannot tell what to fay; it is a very hard matter that he faith : and a- gain I know, that when the power and R, purfe ^6^ l he Holy Guide. Lib. 3 purfc of his King and Scholer, Alexander^ who gave him eight talents of Silver, a huge f limine, to that rife, he heaped up a rableofall kinds of reports and heare- fayes into fome of thofe books (by fome ca\led wokvicLkclvicl) and fome falfe and untrue tales might creep in among them-, yet I owe much to the mans worchinefs; and again the books have ever held the place of a true Record \ and befidesthis matter of the Elephant, both for the fore- couched caufes, and for his wit and man- ners, fomewhat near our nature, may rea- fcnably well agree with the found 01 rea- fon. How then? I fay again, methinksl feel my mind to ebb and flew within me : And yet fuppofe it true, that this Bead fliouldliveio many yeares; the Iflanders ofTeil near Colecut, and the inhabitants of the hill Athoy both of them commonly and ufually reach our appointed time of an hundred and fifty yeares,by the favour of the aire onely and foile where they dwell, taking fbefides ,for ought 1 can know) the common rate and courfe of the world 5 that we may lawfully deem, if they lived as chaftely as the Elephant , who comes but once in two yeares to Venery, and followed his other good orders of life as well, that they might eafily draw forth their age longer, and come to the daies I ©f the Elephant. 32,For j Ll B. 3 . The Holy Guide. 2 7 32.Foras wein our lefs happie foiles, by our own ill diet and crooked cuftomc* have cut offand loll the better half of our time , fo it may feem of them ; for we muft hot think in this diforder of the world, that any man fulfilleth the time of nature, but all are fwept away with the blaft of untimely death. 33. But it may chance that long race of life, which the Author makes the beaft to run, was no common and ordinary courfe in that kind, but of fome odde and rare Example y and then, no doubt, as there be fome amongft us which by their di- ligence, and I know not by what good hap, double the common term , fo there be not wanting in thofe places, which fometimes prove aged men , and which. live twice as long as the common fort,thac is, as long as the Elephant. 34. Wherefore, for all this, or ought elfe that can be caft againft us , let us conclude, that man, if he kept the good and kindlie diet and order of life, which other wights, void of reafon by the true and certain guide of Nature keep, having more helps and means unto it j might live longer then any of them ; yea, and with eafe reach the bounds of long life ap- pointed, and perhaps further alio; but we have ftayed in the midftand mean, as R2 it 2 8 The Holy Guide. Ll B. 3 it were, becaufe it feems to obey the fccret Will of God the better , and yet withall to fill the whole deiire of Nature. Then fay you, it were good to learn the order of life which Beafts doufe to keep and follow 5 if it were meet and feemly for men to lead a beaftlylife; do not fo take the meaning of a good thing , with the fuareof afoul and filthy word ; a man is not one and Tingle as they be, but double and two things, and partly a Wight, nay a Beaft ( be it fpoken with reverence ) and partly a more divine thing* and therefore albeit , according to his divine part and reafon, he ought to follow the divine pattern and form of life above fet; yet as he is a Wight, and an earthly Crea- ture alfo, it is not uncomely, nay it is we*- cerTary to do as they do, after a fort ; and if it were altogether fo,it were better, and more agreeable with the will of Nature, who knoweth beft what belongs unto life, that is, unto her felf '•> for kindleadeth them ft ill after one due and orderly man- ner, when great variety of wit and device guideth usagainft Minervaes will , as they fay, and quite befides the way of Nature, unto a thoufand by and forraign Cu- ftomes, which is the only caufeof our de- feneration from our ancient and finl whole and fecond eltate, Wherefore if a company I Lib. 3' The Holy Guide. company of piety and lufy Men and Women would agree to live together in fome wild, open, clear and fweet air , fcatteredly like a Country village^ and not like a clofe and fathered City (which one thing prevents a thoufanct difeafesand deaths alone J and to live to- gether to thrright end of Nature , that u, for children , and not for pleafures fakj? ( for this was made to the right purpofe ) and in as feldome and due courfe 5 as the better fort of Beafts, the ready way to preferve life and foreftall difeafes, but efpecially to get good Ghildren^ and to bring up their children in. labour and hardjhip 5 mingled with much mirth and Jleep together , no frnall helps to long life and health 5 asthe dire&ers themfelves confefs and know. But for their meat and diet ( wherein thofe Beafts offend and fail greatly ) if they would confeut to take no phyfick, but in great danger caft in by misfortune (in which cafe the Beafts do not wane their remedies ) never to drink wine, the (hortner of life 5 and to be fhort 3 not to take any meat and drink that the fire hath touched ( for it funders the fine from the grofs 3 that is, the beft from the worft, which we now choofe ) but as Nature hath left them D and other Wights ufe them ; if thefe things , I fay , were duly kept and performed^ ani fully perCwaded R. 3 that ■■ . I* i : ~ <| 1 go The Holy Guide. LiB,^. that within three or four generations and orT-fprings,it would come to pane, that we {hauld fee this people prove a Nation of Giants, not only pafTing the age of Beafts, and the bounds of long life afore fet, but wholly* recovering and reftorinf; all the bleflings of the firft eftate of the body. 35. And this I gather, not by our own contrary cuftomc-s only , taking effe&s as crofle and contrary, but chiefly by the life and ufe of Giants and lufty people in times paft, and fome other yet at this day, which was and is the very felf-fame race, and courfe which I defcribed : And fure for the Inhabitants of Teill and ^t^,which I brought in even now, filling the term of our long life,al though I am not certain of their ufe and cuftome , and where I find the ftory 5 I know the caufe is laid open, the goodl fuels of the foyi in the firft place (for it is thought to be the blefled Paradife) and upon the goodnefs of the Air in the next, for the height of the hill, without all wind and rain , two great troubles of mens bodies ; yet lam led to think that they do keep the fame orderly and kindly form and rule of life, or atleaft to draw near unto it, becaufe albeit clean Air, by cleaning and quickening the fpirits, and Searching the body, be not; little helps and LiB.g. the Holy Guide. 31 and comforts in this journey ( as we (hall eaiijy fee,if we mark how among all Crea- tures, that lead their livesinthe cleaner Element 3 do live the longer ; Fifh then Worms,and land Wights then thefe; and winged ones yec longer, becaufe the high* er , the better air ftili ; infomuch as Car^ yet if ill diet went withall, it would marr as much as the other made, and greatly cloy and hinder, yea and cut fhort the race of their long life. 36. I am of the fame mind for all other odd and private perfons of great a^e and long life recorded, (as for fome Italians in Plinies time, regiftred of one hundred twenty four years ) and fuch other aged men in Authors, a man might let in here a fea of examples -, but I muft be fliort; neither would I name King Argantbon, that lived an hundred and twenty years , and reigned eighty thereof ; nor yet the old Knightof our Country, Sir Alington^ and Tarre, &c. yet twenty years older-, but that is fo ftrange in Nobility , that they come, as it were, unto that kindly courfe of life , as unto the goale and end of long life. Then we fee at length that it is not un- pofilble, as they fay, but an ordinary and R, 4 eafic; 3 2 the Holy Guide. Lib.? eafie matter to ftrengthen the weak na«* ture of mankind) to enlarge the ftreights of his life , and fo lead him on ttill to the i ancient age and long life appoint- ed- 37. Bat I fee them ftart up and fay the like as Cato in affairs of ftate, ufed to give counfel ( un wifely, though never fo well ) as if he had been in Plato's Common- wealth, and not in the dregs of Romulus : So in matter of dyec and order of body, fpeakasif we lived in the former golden Age, which,as Foets fain, was under Saturn, and not in the corruption of Jupiters kingdome ; and thac with the world,asit now goeth, cannot be brought ( without a kind of divine power,to raze out the old, and make a new world , and that in long time ) unto the tuft' and kindly cuftome of life 5 I muft,if I mean to do wife!y,take the men as 1 find them, and prove that all fuch weaknefs as now is among them,may by mans indeavour and skill of healing be upholden and led forth unto thofe bounds, and the end of long life afore- fet. Albeit I have done as much as reafona- bly may be required at my hands in this place, which was alottedout tofhow the pofiibility of the matter , yet becaufe I v*oimt it better byplainnefs of fpeech to do LlB.?« The Holj Guide. 35 do good, which is the end of my writing, fhen by fubtlenefs of Argument to ob- tain my purpofe, I will come unto you, and venture upon that point alfo,be it ne- ver fo hard and defperate , hoping not that fortune will favour bold men, but God good men. Then as there are three caufes of life and being, the life and foul it felf, and his food the firft moifture , and the frame and temper of the body that holds them both ; fo let us take them all in order,and fee how they may be preserved , and kept together, beginning firft with the laft, be- caufe it is leaft and lighted. 38. It is enatted by the law of Nature, that no body,mixt orfimple, (hall or may- live and preferve his eftate , and being without two helps or ftayes, that is, meac and exercife,each like his kind, and of his nature ; as in lone and fimple and fub- tile bodies ( for it is plain in the firft row, efpecially if they be living, as they term them, though all things indeed have life and fouls, as we heard above ) the hot ones crave fiery meat and moving exer- cife •, moift ones, wind and water, flowing food and exercife ; cold and dry things like an earthly , fuftenance and reft for exercife, which is alfolike, and preferves their ftate and being. m% But g 4 *fhe Holy Guide. L I B- 3 . 39. But if all alone and fimpie things be within the compafs of this Law , then Heaven may not be free, nor exempted 5 and they (peak* not altogether fondly, that fay, the Stars feed uponthe Sea $ and for thatcaufe, by good advice of Nature , the Ocean fo rightly placed tinder the courfe and walk of the Sun ; for although the water be yet fo far off, and unlike them, yet their power and ftrength is fuch,as they are able by their labour eafi- ly to refine it , and turn it firft into Air, and then into iEther, a weaker like thing, and their proper food. 40. That this is fo, the hungry Souls f which are but taps dipt off the heavenly body) makes it plain here below unto us, when we fee them ftill unwilling to tarry, and unable to live among us without meat, as they bewray tfoemfelves by the plain expence and wade of the firft moi- fture : Nay take this one way , if you would mark well, and all lyeth on the ground : then there is old coil and fight- ing here below for meat and exercife,that is, for life and being (which makes the caufe of all aftion and doing, reft and change, and of all things J and every one runneth eafily and gladly to his like; and if hisftrength be never fo lit tie grea* ter, he fubdues, digefts, and turns him in- to Lib.?, The Holy Guide. 35 to his own nature, and is ftrengthened by him j but if he mifle of his like food at hand, and be much ftronger, he dares en- counter, and is able to equal unlike things alfoj as I find of the Scars, mightieft things, giving might to all things in the world : But in cafe the unlikes and con- traries be of equal power and matches, then neither devoureth nor confumeth each other , but both are mazed, dulled, and weakened , which they call confent, and temper, and mixture ; for example, fireextream hotandfomewhafi dry wit h- all, and water very cold and fomewhat wet,meeting together in even powers and proportions of ftrength, are both impair- ed, but neither loft and deftroyed 5 but if this nature chance by the heat of Heaven tsbe taken in hand, and turned into an airy and fat fubftance , though there be now two monfters fet againft the drought of fire, yet becaufe of the heat of weather and Heaven abounding, it is now become partly like to fire, his weaker foe and ene- my yielding himfelf for food unto it,and encreaflng his ftrength and nature. But if on the other fide air add unto his ex- ceeding moifture, matching the drought of fire, yet fome ftrength and watry cold- nefs fas appeareth in thick and foggy weather) it is able eafily to overcome the firs, and eat him up, 41, 36 The Holy Guide. LlB.$ 41. Now for a mixtbody (which is a confenc and dulling of the fourfirft fa- mous enemies, made and kept in tune and awe, by the force and skill of an heavenly and natural heat upon them ) it hath the fame reafon ; for when either for lack of meat, or driven by violence, this heat de- parteth, the friends begin to ftir and fight for food and freedome, until fome oneftandsout above the reft, and reco- vers fome part of his former power,which puts thofe that can feel to the worft , and breeds difeafes, and at laft gets the whole Lordfhip, and rules over all, and turns them all into his own nature; then the old confent,knot,and body is broken, loft and fpoiled, and a new made and gotten, ftill going downward, untillthey return to earth, from whence they all came ; for example,and that near home ; In the fiery frame of mans body , when the foul for want of food fails and flits away, they itreight retire and run back in order: Firft, fire waxeth moift and lukewarm, fupt up with air, and thisfoon after thick and cold, that is,wateri(h, and water mud- dy,ftill more and more thick and dry, till at length it be molt dry and heavy a and all be devoured and brought to earth , from whence they all fet forth before. And this is the natural diflblution and deatk Lib.?. The Holy Guide. 37 death of our body ; forcible death and deftruttion is by difeafe ( to bear out other force, which no man can warrant ) when either breath or meat, diftempered in fome quality, do feed and nourifhfome one their like beginnings above the reft, and make him ftrong and able to vanquifti them, and bring in the jar of the mufkal confent aforefaid ; as when by waterifh meat and air all the beginnings are chan- ged into water, through hot and dryin- toa fiery temper, and fo forth; or eife when the body wants the exercife which is owing and due unto him, which is quick motion, to preferve the air and fire in the fine frame of man, from the floth and idlenefs of the flow and rufty begin- nings. For in a Difeafe called the yellow Jtun- dice, when all the blood is converted into choler , if there be not a way to convert that choler back into bloud,how can the man live f for if all the blood converted into choler be let out, he muft needs die 5 fbhe muft alfo if there be not a way left in nature to tranfmute this choler back again into blood : I might inftance the like of the Dropfie 5 but I mould make too I< ng a marginal note ; ftudy Nature, and (he will make thee a better Phy fitian then Galen himfelf was, fo fnall you learn to fort i fie 38 The Holy Guide. Lib.} fortifie that quality of the body that is weak, andalmoft eaten up by its adverfe quality, as a Mufitian winds up that ftring that is flacked, till it makes a harmony in the reft,but he winds it not too high, lead its found overtop them. By which grounds laid, we fee the way to uphold the temper of our body made plain and eafie ; no more but to feed and cherifli it with clean and temperate Air and meat continually > that all the beginnings ferved and fed alike , one may not be more proud, ftrong, and able then ano- ther,to fubdue the reft, and overthrow the State 5 and therefore poyfon killeth us , becaufe it is extream cold and dry, (Tor we niay fhut out all rotten, as alfo fiery and watery tempers from the name of poyfon) feeding and ftrengthning the dregs, but devouring the fine liquor of the body , as venomous Juices the like Plants, and thefcnoifomeBeafts, and one of thefe another j nay which is very ftrange, I have read of fuch nacured men of India , that ufed to eat Toads and Vi- pers : And Albert™ faith , he fawaGirlof three \ear\ old >t hat fed greedily upon Spiders, and was never hurt,but liked greatly with it. 42. Do not think it anydifcord, when Ifaid above , fatnefs and raw temperate- nefs Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 39 nefs upholds the body • all is ones it can- not be fac , unlefs the earth and water be well and evenly mixt ; nor fine, except fire and air bear as good a ftroke, as rule among them ', but you will fay, that Na- ture hath given her creatures a walk of courfe , not to (land ftill in one ftay and place for ever 3 but to move and walk up and down, to and fro, from one fide to another: that is, as wasfaid before, God hath made a changeable world,and there- fore that' frame and building of mans body, cannot ever hold and hang toge- ther , but mull needs one day be loofned and fall afunder. I grant, it mull needs be fo by the courfe of nature, becaufe to ful- fil the will of her Lord^ (he hath appointed ftronger means and caufes to work, either the want and abfence of the inward friendftiip and keeping of the foul , in thofe which the common fore callliving things,or in the reft, theprefenceof fome ravenous and fpoiling enemy : but if cunning Art and Skill ( which by the help of nature is above thecourfeof na- ture J by knowing of the due food for life, and defence againft the enemy, may be ajole to defend the one, and keep off the other, then, no doubt, the frame and temper of both dead and quick may laft for ever. 43. The 40 The Holy Guide. L1B.3 43. The way is found already , and known by certain people for the one j I mean, that Art hath often, by keeping off the failing enemy with a ftrong contrary, preferved and upheld a dead thing , of ilippery date and foon decay for ever > as a Corps by Balm or water of Salt,Tim- berby theoyl of Brimftone,and fuch like: Why then mould the next prove impolfi- ble > to wit,by giving ftore of fit food frill to life and natural heat ( for the other helps of meat and exercife are* eafie ) to underfhore or keep upright our weak and falling frame forever. The Greeks hold, that our natural heat and life ( becaufe it feeds upon,and waft- eth the moft fine and unfeen oyl ( called firft moifture ) daily, which no food of Air and Meat is fit and fine enough tore- pair, muft need faint and fail wichall, and cannot be reftored : Let us fee what may be faid to this, yea and bend all our force unto it ; for this is all. 44. The foul, life and natural heat of things is often and fitly compared and likened unto the other grofs and fierce, hot and dry body, called fire 5 to feed and maintain this, his weak-like, that is, air cannot be wanting ; and becaufe it in his due place is too thin and fcattered,di- viding the fire to nought in purfuit of his food Li B. 2 . 7 he Holy Guide. 4 1 iood and fuiienance , vc muft needs by heaps be crowded up in a fhell of watery called oyl 5 if much heat and oyl nieec together* the work is great and buiie, and thereout rifeth a fmoak as a leaving of the meat , and the fire follows as far as the fmoak hath any fatnefs , which makes a flame. 45. Albeit the nature of fire continueth as long as it hath food enough, & cravech no great exercife, and will laft well in a c!ofe place as under afhes,yet aflame being more thenfire,a hot breath orfmoak-befides,de« fires open and clear air,both to receive the thick,the refwfe , which elfe would choalc him, as alfo for his like weaker food, thac he be not ftarved , which two are enough^ befides a little motion for his exercifejthac we may not marvailat thofe men, which be in cooling for another needful thing in this bufinefs, wherees the kind of fire and air abhors cooling as his contrary, as it is engraven in the nature of things, ftill to fly from that which hurtsit. Now in like manner to come to the pur- pofe, if the fire of life and natural heac be not great,a little fine oyl, and firft moi- fture, will ferve to feed it, and out of the flack working fmallftore of refufe breath and fmoak arifeth to make need of frefh and open air to clearWe and feed it, as S appeared* A*x the Holy Guide, Lib. 3 appeareth by thafe Wights,which are able to live in their places without help of wind.> breath, and air: thelittle parted Vermine ( called in Latine Ifefia ) liveth any where 3 and Fifh in the water, nay in the found earth fometimes \ Toads \\t clofe Rocks,as Agrkola faith ; and Flies in themoft fecret Miners fire , as Aritfotlere- ports ; but when the heat , on the other iide,is great and lively, like a flame, as in the hotter fifh, and other, no Wight can want frefhairand fine breath, both by his clearnefs to purge , and his weaker like- siefs tonourifh the iEtherial fmoak, and (pirit that carrieth it. ftowthis, no more then flame, needeth cooling to preferve his being *, but to temperate the kind of his proportion , fit for wit and weighty perceiving, which, I fay,before I brought, and not the air per- formed. 46. That ^Ether is ftronger then air,and able toconfume it, it is plain in reafon by his warmth and moiftne?,pafIing air in his own naturejand yetgrofsand thick air, as bent towards enmity and contrariety with it, will ftand in combat againft it, and overcome it, and thence it is, that in deep Mine-pits,and Caves underground, where the air is thick$co'rrupt,and unkind for want of flowing, no Wight nor light can Ll E. 3. ihe Holy Guide, 43 can draw breath and live* unlels by ily deiire the way be found to move and nouriih the fame air , and make it kind- 47. Then to draw near the matter, if the Stars do feed on ./Ether,and this upon ciean andfpotleG>air , as on their weaker lights , and our foul and life is of a ftai ry kind 5 even a (lip and fpark thereof ( as you may read at large in my Harmony of the JVerld) as is aforefa'd, then it fo flow- ech forth to feed our ^ther, the Carrier of ourfoul, with good a ; r, which is round about us j that will fcrve the turn, but to nourifh life and heat it felf. Either it lelf mult be the food, or this body which is Co high and pail our reach, except this- fpark of heavenly fire were able, like the whole body and fpring above, by his power over our meats , to turn the water firft into breath , and this into /Ether , which it is norland can go no further then toair,and to make a common oyl and fatnefs fit to nourifh an elemental, as they term it, but not a heavenly fire. 48. Where then mall our life find food and fuftenance, fay you , tic to bear it up, and maintain his being ? In that fine oyl, and unfeen firft jnoifture and fat, and call you that iEtherial > How can that which wxonceftedj and before that bleed, and fin} of S 2 all A 4 The Holy Guide. Lib. 3 all a fipnt, become a body fo fine , clear and JEtbereal ? Efpecially when one weak ^>car, and foft fire of heaven, is not able to make fo fineawork,fo fair and highly fun* dered - 1 fay, this is the fecret and depth of all 5 which becaufe the Greek} never founded, I do not marvel if the means to preferve life did efcape them ; but let us ihut up every word, and help them in this helplefs matter , yea although we be dri- ven to open the things that have long lain hid and covered over with great darknefs. When our life in the lufting parts is by Che bellows of thought ftirred up, and moved unto work, itfendeth forth out of every part , the hot natural fpirits and breath of begetting cloathed with the (hell of feed , cut out from the dewy part of our meat, ready to be turned into our body ( or at leaft already, and now turn- ed into earth)and not from the refufe and leavings of it, asfomefay, when I could! (hew it,if time would fuffcr,the bed juice in all our body. 49. This is the furtheft and fineft work manfhip of our meat and food of body, the very beginning and firft (ruffe of th fine oyl,the food of life,after the remain ing forty dayes in heat , before it come t perfcftion 3 being wrought, as we know, with Lib.j. 7 he Holy Guide* 4 5 with the double natural heat of the be- getting breatb,and the womb, forty dayes before it be fully framed and faihioned into the form and (hape of a man , ready to draw food or nourimment ( be it milk or menftrue, received by mouth or navel, I cannot ftand to reafon ) from the mo- ther , to the increafe of the tough and founder parts : but the firft moifture is now at his full growth and perfeftion,and from thence feedeth life , being unfed it felf,and wafteth daily againft the grounds and rules of Phyfick , for the child hath now received all that the workman can give, & is put over for the reft 5 which is his nourimment, unto his mothers payment 5 but what hath (he to give for food unto the food of life > NougBt, as I (hewed be- fore 5 elfe we might live for ever. Then we fee what the firft moifture is> and how it excels the food of the body, 8c why it cannot be maintained by it, be- caufe it is the moft airy peice f for the reft go every one his way , and make his owri part from whence he came)of all the feed mingled, wrought,purged,raifed,and re- fined,and then clofely thickened and dri- ven up clofe together, forty times more 8c above our meat, which in one day is end- ed and ready to be turned into earth 3 and therefore unfit in any wile to increafe and S 3 cleave 46 7A« Holy Guide. LiB.2. cleave co our tirft moifture, the food of life , even as unmeet for all the worlds as water is to iEther,oyl cr fitnefs. 50. J\nd by this to come to the point, we have a plain pattern ( if we be wife and careful ) and way to work the great myitery cf Adjourment of life-, for if it be fo,as I proved above, that all the moifture of the matter lyeth in the maintenance of our natural heat, and it, as our men, and all reafon teacheth , followeth the iteps of common fire,waxethand waneth, is quick and faint .> according to the ftore of his food, andfirft moiftuie; then fure we can make an oyi as fine and clofe as this, nay in ail points all one with this ; it will ealily mingle and joyn with our firft moifture, and fo fee J, nouriOi, and in- crcafe, and like withal! ; even in as good and plain reafon , as the fame oyl dropt ftill into the fire augments both food and flame; yea put cafe the fame natural fire of ours , mould not only impaij? his ftrength, for lack of meat, and flack his force, but abate hisbignefsalfo, as feme Phyiitians hold : yet there were no gTeat hurt done; for this fecond fpark and Hip of the great and common fire of Nature^ being a piece of the finer part of the whole ( which is all one in all things) and fellow to his like in us, when it is mack free L1B.3. Ifa Holy Guide. 47 free and clofe in thefe fine iEtherial Me- dicines,would reitore the heap, and mend the matter. But how (hall we get the like fine oyl and fat tiiftmoifture> 51. The matter is drawn fo far, that there is all the hardnefs *, I mewed the pattern , even as Nature got the fame be-? fore you, by the like ftuffe and food, and by the like heat and moving workman : this by certain proof of all our men is eafily to be found, even a gentle, con- tinual, equal, andmoift, that is, rotting heat. But the feed feemcth hard and unable to be matched , becaufe a kind of ftrange and hid proportion and temper of our body ( which no man by counfel and knowledge, much lefle by hand and work- manfhipjcan reach andcounterfeit,nonoe if he boyld all the mixtures in all the heats that all the wits in the world could devife, made it thus after his own faftu* on. 52. Then how if we take the fame frame and temper not by us , but by kind proportioned > I mean the fame blood, or nefh,or feed.if we will f which the men of Germany choofe , and commend it , above all , and call it Muwia ) would it not be very natural ? for if the Doctors hold it good , if any part about us fail ip, S 4 hi^ 4S The Holy Guide. LiB.^ j his duty,tocorre& and help him with the like pare of fome beaft, pairing in the pro- perty j as to mend fainting I lift with the j yard of a lufry Beaft; the womb th^t cannot hold, with the womb of a quick I Conceiver ; narrow breathing with the I lungs of a long-winded Wight. See the Itiarmonyof the [Vorld^ &c. Then confider with how much more kindly confent we might with cur own parts finely drefTed help ourfelvesin our difeafes. But for my part I cannot unwind the bottomeof this great Secret of Germany, for we mean not to make a Man, which is to be feared in thecourfe , if his rules be true, but a faft mcifture only ; and then fithall things are made of the fame ftuffe, by the fame workman , and differ but by mingling only , it boots not where we be- gin the fame mingling , and form it the laft, which Art is able in time to do at once, (he may do often, and fo reach the end of Nature. 53, Whatneedl fay more? Is notthe matter clear enough,that another faft fine oyl and firft moifturemay be made, in all iike to our own, and able to maintain, or repair it and the natural together > And then that by the fame ( though other cage means would ferve) becaufeit isfo J ~ tern- Li B.3. The Holy Guide. '49 temperate , the body may be brought and held in fquare and temper, and fo by reafon all the caufes meet and flock to- gether, the life may bepreferved, I dare not fay for ever , for fear of the ftroke of Beftiny which God hath made, and will have kept, but unto the term , and thofe bounds above fet, and beyond them alfo, if ever any men have gone beyond them. 5 ee the Temple of JVifdome. ^4. But if it fhould chance any of our chofen children ( toufe thephrafeof our Family) be unable yet, for all this teaching , to take and digeft this food of learning, what is to be done.? Shall we caft them off for untoward Changelings, as the foolifh women think > Or elfe for Beares and Apes, as Galen did the Ger- mans? No, that were inhumanity; let lis rather nourifh them ftill eafily and gently, hoping that they will one day prove men ; and give it unto them , that all the moft wife and cunning men in the world, I mean all the hofts of Hermetifts , have from age to age ever held ( but under vails and fhadows ) fomewhat covertly, and taught for certain, that fucha firft fine oyl, whereof I fpake, and which they call a fifth nature , Heaven, or by a more fit name, JEther^ is able alone to hold to- gether the brittle ftateof man, very long above 50 tke Holy Guide. L \ B- 3 . above the wonted race both in life, health., and lufiinefs : nay, for fear there be yet fo'me fufpiticn left in their Authority , \ will go further; As many in the other lideof Greece 3 as had travelled in thefe matters^andfeenfcmeching ( though not with eyes, but with minds i think ) con- fefs the fame; as (befides them which perhaps I know not ) Fernel in part, and altogether Fecinus and Car damn (who were as wife and learned men as any time hath brought forth) do openly declare in their writings : But if this foft and eafie kind of delivery will not yet ferve theturn, and they mufrfeed their eye as well as their belly, as the proverb goes, then let them cell me by what diligence did Plato (o or- der himfelf and fchool his own body (to life his words ) Nay, is it not like he had them when he wa9 in /Egypt among the Pxiefts and Wife men, and brought home great learning from among them I and when he fpeaks Co much and often in difgrace of his own Countries Phyfick, though Hippocrates him- LlB.?. The Holy Guide. 5 1 - himfelf then reigned > But it is for certain written in divers of our Records, that many of Egypt , the fp ring of this water of liie , have before and fince Tlato, by the feif fam: water, kept themfelves alive twice as long as Plato 5 if I might bring in their witnefs , or if this whole kind of proof ( which I like full ill) were not counted by the Arc of People unskil- ful!. $<;. Then let this one example to'd by Cardan, a man allowed among them,ferve for all j That Galenus of late Charles the fifths Phylitian, by this Heaven of ouns, b:fet with Starrs (as fome do term it) encreafed the fpirits of herbs, by an eafie feat put into them, and fo preferved him- felf in luftv fort until one hundred and twelve years. 56. Neither think tht mixture better then our fingle oyl, ( though Lully, Ra* perfis, Varacelfus , aud fome others allow icfo) but rather worfe in reafon fortoo much heat in a weak and loofe body; I mean for long life; by his over greedi- nefs in eating up too faft his own and our firft moifture 5 it maybe better becaufeit is ftronger againft difeafes ; even as the Leaches judge between the durrghil and a garden hearb for the fame caufe. 51, But 5 1 The Holy Guide. Lib. 5 21. But i think the device not good in either, nor agreeable to the Juftice of Nature , which more evenly weigheth. her works 5 nor yec to the kindly skill of Hermes 9 who, to the great advantage of his Medicines, hath a moftfaft, tough, and lading ftufle, according as we (hall (how in that which followeth. Now is it time to reft, we have made the Third a longdayes journey. CHAR L1B.3. The Holy Guide. 53 CHAP. H. 1.2. Of the accurate ftrufiure of mans body: 5. Of joy and grief e^ and difference of wits, I Admire the goodnefs of God towards us in the frame and ftru&ure of our bo- dies; the admirable Artifice whercofy Ga- len, though a Naturalift, was fo taken with, that he could not but adjudge the honour of a hymn to the wife Creator of it. The continuance of the whole, and every particular is fo evident an argu- ment of exquifite skill in the Maker, that if I mould purfueall that fuits to roypur- pofe, it would amount to too large ("yet an entire^ Volume. I fhall therefore write all that is needfull to be known by all men, leaving the reft to be fupplyed by Anatomifts : And I think there is no man that hath any skill in that Art, but will confefs, the more diligently and accu- rately the frame of our body is exami- ned, it is found the more exqmfitely con- formable to our Reafon, Jndgement and Delire-, fothat fuppofing the fame mat- ter that our bodies are made of^ if it had been in our own power to have made our (elves., 54 the Holy Guide. L1B.3 felves, we mould have framed our felves nootherwife then we are : Toinftancein fame particulars, As in our Eyes, the Number, the Scituation, the Fabrick of them is fuch, that we can excogitate no- thing to be added thereto, ortobe alter- red, either for their Beauty, Safety, or lifefulnefs; But as for their Beauty, I have treated largely of it in my youthful merry Poems, and now am uot minded to transcribe my tender nice fubjeft , and couple it with my feverer ft>le; 1 will onely note how fafely they are guarded, and fitly framed out for the ufethey are intended : the Erow and the Nofe faves them from harder ftrokess but fuch a cu- rious part as the Eye, being neceflary lia- ble to mifchief from Imallcli matters, the lweat of the Forehead is fenced off by thofe two wreaths of haire, which we call the Eyc-browes* and the Eye-lids are fortified with little ftiff briftles, as with Palljfadoes, againft the aflault of Fives and Gnats, and fuch like bold Animalcu- l&\ beiides, the upper lid prefently claps down , and is as good a Fence as a Port- cullis againft the importunity of the Ene- my ; which is done alfo every night,whe- ther there be any prefent aflault or no, as if nature kept Garrifon in this Acropolis of mans body, the Head, and look 'd that fuch LjB. 3. ihz Holy Gtiide. 55* fuch Lawsfhould be duly obferved,as were moft for hisfafety. 2* And now for the life of the Eye, which is fight, it is evident, that this Or- gan is fo exquifitely framed for thatpur- pofe , that not the leait curiofity can be added : For iirfr, the Humour aiidTuniclei are purely tranfparent to let in light, and colours unfolded, and unfophifticated by any. inward tincture. And then again , the parts of the Eye are made convex that there might be a direction of many rayes coming from one point of the ob- ject , unto one point anfwerable in the boctome of the eye, to which purpofe the ChryfiaUine humour is of great moment, and without which, the fight would be very obfeureand weak. Thirdly, the Tunica uvea hath a Mufculous Yomr^nd can dilate and contract that round hole in it, which is called the Pupil of the Eye, for the bet- ter moderating the tranfmiition of light. Fourthly, the infide of the^ietfis black like the wall of a Tennis-Court, the raies falling upon the Retina again 5 for fuch a repercuffion would make the fight more confufed. Fifthly, the Tunica Aracb- vcides , which invellops the ChryfiaUine hu- mour , by vertue of its Procejfus Ciliares^ can thruft forward , or draw back that preti- 9us ufeful part of the Eye, as the nearnefs or • 5 6 The Holy Guide. Ll B. 7, or diftance of the obje&s (hall require. Sixthly and laftly, the Tunic* Retina is white, for the better and more true re- ception of the fpecies of things ( as they ordinarily call them ) as white paper is fitteit to receive thole Images of Ink* and the eye is already fo perfeft, that 1 believe it is not needful to fpeak any more thereof *, we being able to move our head upwards and downwards , and on every fide, might have unawares thought our felvcs fufUciently well pro- vided for h but Nature hath added Muf- cles alfo to the Eyes , that no perfection might be wanting; for we have oftocca- fion to move our Eyes, our Heads being unmoved,as in reading,and viewing more particularly any object fet before us; and that this may be done with more eafe and accuracy, (he hath furnifhed that Organ with no lefie then fix feveral Mufcles ; and indeed this framing of Mufcles , not only in the Eye , but in the whole body^ is admirable; for is it not a wonder, that even all our flefh mould be fo handfomly formed and contrived into diftinft pieces, whofe rife and infertionslhouldbe with fuch advantage, that they do ferve to move fome part of the body or other i and that the parts of our body are not moved only fo conveniently, as will ferye us Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 57 2 * us to walk and fubfift by, but that they are able to move everyway imaginable that will advantage us ? for we can fling our Legs and Arms upwards and downwards, backwards, forwards, and roiind 5 as they that fpin,or would fpread a Mole hill with their feet. To fay nothing of Reffiratz- oh , the conftriftion of the Diaphragm* for the keeping down the Guts, and fo enlar- ging the Thorax, that the Lungs may have pfay, and the afliftance of the inward in - ter'coftal Mufcles in deep fufpirat ions, wheii we take more large gulps of Air to cool our heart, overcharged with love or for- row; nor of the curious Fabrick of the Lainix, fo well fitted with Mufcles for the modulation of the voice, tunable fpeech, and delicious finging : You may add to thefe the notable contrivance of the Heart, its two ventricles, and its many val- vule ,fo fram'd and fcitiiated, as is mod lit for the reception and tranfmifflori of the blood , and its fent thence away warm to comfort and cherifh the reft of the body ; for which purpofe alfo the valvule in the veins are made. 3. But we fee by experience, that joy ami grief proceed not in all men from the fame caufes , and that men differ very much in the conftitution of the body 3 whereby that which helpeth arid further- T ech 5 8 The Holy Guide. Lib. 3 cth vital conftitutiou in one, and is there- fore delightful , hindereth and croffeth it in another, and therefore caufeth grief. The difference therefore of Wits hath its original from the different paffions , and from the ends to which the appetite lead- eth them. As for that difference which arifeth from ficknefs, and fuch accidental diftempers, I have appointed them for thefeco'nd Part of this Book, and there- fore I omit the fame as impertinent to this place,and confider it only in fuch as have their health, perfe&ion of body, and Or- gans well difpofed. — -?■ CHAP, Ll B. 3 . The Holy Guide. 59 CHAP. II. I. Of the -perfection of the Body, 2. And then of the Nature of the Senfes. 3. Of Delight^ 4. Pain, 5. Love, 6. Hatred, 7. Senfkal Delight, 8. and Pains of the B°fy> 9- J°Jy 10. and Grief. i./^Ther things I have to fay, but I \^ will rather infift upon fuch th ings asareeafie and intelligible even to Idiots, or fuch Phyficians that are no wifer, who if they can but tell the joints of their hands,or know the ufe of their teeth,they may eafily difcover it was Counfel , noc Chance, that created them 5 and if they but underftand thefe natural Medicines I have prepared in this Book for their ex- ample, they willknowthat theyfhallbe cured of alli?ifeafes, without pain or any great coil; and Love, not Money, was it that made me undertake this Task. Now of the well-fram'd parts of our body, I would know why we have three joints iri our Legs and Arms,as alfo in our fingers, but that it was much better then having but two or four > And why are our fore- teeth fharp like Chizfeels, to cut, but our inward teeth broad, to grind 1 but this is T 2 more 6o 1 he Holy Guide. LiB 3- more exquiiice then having cherii ail fharpjorali broad,or the fore-teeth broad, and the other (harp; but tfe might have made a hard fhift to have lived , though tn that worfer condition. Again, why are the teeth Co luckily placed . 2. I might add, that Nature hath made the hindmoft parts of our Body ( which we fit upon ) moft flefhy , as providing foroureafe, making us a natural Cufhi- on , as well as for Inftruments of Motion for our Thighs and Legs ; (he hath made the hinder part of the Head more ftrong, as being otherwife unfenced againft falls arid other cafuaities. She hath made the L B • 3. The Holy Guide 6 C th: Back- bone of feveral Vertebra , as bc«? ing more fie to bend, more tough, and lefs in danger of breaking then if they were all one intire bone , without thofe gnftly un&ures. She hath ftren if you fay that they all put toge- ther have 5 I appeal to him that thus an- fwers, how unlikely it is Aat that mould have Animadverfion that is fo utterly un- capable of Memory, and confequently, of Reafon; for it |is impoffible to conceive memory competible to fuch a fubjecl:, as it is how to write Characters in the Wa* ter, or in the Wind. 3. If you fay the brain immits and di- rects thefe fpirits ; how can that fo freely and fpontaneoufly move it felf, or ano- ther, Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 67 ther, that hath no Mufcles > Befides, Do- &ov Culpepper tells you, that though the Brain be the inftrument of Sence, yet it hathnofenfe atall of it felf; how then can that that hath no fenfe direct us fpon- taneoufly and arbitrarioufly, the animal fpirits into any part of the body? an Aft that plainly requires determinate fenfe and preception : But let the Phyfi- tians and Anatomifts conclude what they will, I (hall, I think, little IcfTe then demonftrate that the braines have no fenfe; for the fame in us that hath fenfe, hath likewife Animadverfion; and that which hath animadverfion in us 3 hath alfo a facultie of free and arbitrarious Fancy and Reafon. 4. Let us now confider the nature of the brain, and fee how competible thofe alterations are to fuch a fubjeft ; verily if we take a right view of this Laxe, pith, or marrow in mans head , neither our fenfe nor underftanding can difcover any thing more in this fubftance that can pre- tend to fuch noble operations, as free imagination and fagacious collections of Reafon, then we can difcern in a lump of fat, or a pot of honey ; for this floofe pulp that is thus wrapped up within bur Cranium, is but a fpongie and porous bo- dy, and previous, not onely to the ani- mal 68 The Holy Guide. LlB.3- mal fpirks, but alfo to more juice and liquor •, elfe it could not well be nouri- fhed/at leaft it could not befo foft and xnoiftued by drmkennefTe and excefle, as to make the underiranding inept and fottifh in its operations. Wherefore I now demand 5 in this foft fubftance which we call the Brain, whofe foftneffe implies that it is in fome meafure liquid, and liquidity implies a feverai motion of ldofened partsYin what part or parcel thereof doe? Fancy, Reafon and Ani- madverrlonlie> In this laxe confidence that lies like a Net, all on heaps in the water ; I demand, In what Knot, Loop , or Interval thereof, does this faculty of free Fancy and active Reafon relide ? I believe not a D :>&dr in England, nay, not Doctor Culpepper himfelf, were he alive , nor his men, Do&or Fr;eman> and the reft, can aflign me any ; and if any will fay, in all together ; they muft fay that the whole Brain is figured into this or that reprefentation, which would cancel Memory, and take away all capacity of there being any diftinft notes and places for thefevcral fjpec'iesof the things there prefeuted. but if they will fay there is in every part of the brain this power of A- nimadverlion and Fancy, they are to re- member, that the brain is infome mea- fure L.B.3. The Holy Guide. 69 fare a liquid body 3 and we mint enquire N how thefe loofe parts underftand onea- nothers feveral Animadverfions and no- tions *, and if they could (^whichisyet very unconceivable) yet if they could from hence tioe any thing toward *the immiffion and direction of the animal fpi- rits into this or that part of the body, they muft do: it by knowing one ano- thers minds, and by a joynt contention of ftrength., as when many men at once, the word being given when they weigh Anchor , put their ftrength together for the moving of that maffie body, that the (ingle ftrength of one could not deale with j but this is to make the feveral par- ticles of the brain fo many individual per- fons ; a fitter objeft for laughter, then the leaft meafure of belief. 5. Betides, how come thefe many A<- nunadverfions to feem but one to us, our minde being thefe, as is fuppofed? Or why if the figuration of one part of the braine be communicated to all the reft: does not the fameobjettfeeme fcituated both behinde us, and before us, above and 6eneath , on the right hand and on the left 5 and every way, as the im- prefleofthe objett is reflected againft all the parts of the braines 1 but there ap- pear 70 The Holy Gride. LlB.3 pearing to us but one Animadverfion, and one fight of things , it is a fuftici- ent Argument that there is but one j or if there be many, that they are not mutually communicated from the parts one £0 another.) and therefore there can be no fuch joynt endeavour towards one defigne; whence it is manifeft , that the braines cannot immit or direct thcfe animal fpirits into what part of the body they pleafe. CHAP, Lib. 3. The Boly Guide. 71 CHAP. IV. lUow a. Captain was killed: 2 . Of fpont a-- neous motion : 3. Of the external Pheno- mena : 4.0/ the nature of the EJfence: 5 .Of the Soul her felfe : 6. What it is : 7. And. whether it be corporeally 8. or incorpo- real, 1 . jVJOw I muft tell you j that the brain x\ hath no fenfe 3 and therefore can- not imprefle fpontaneoufly any motion on the animal fpirits; it is no flight ar- gument, that fome being differed, have been found without braines: and this I faw, a Captain in Cbrifley, in Arabia^ that was accidentally kill'd by an Alcade and an Arabian ; the ftone is pleafant, but not pertinent to our purpofe ; but this man had nothing but a limpid water in his head^ inftead of brains $ and the braines generally are eafily diflblvable into a wa- tery confiftence, which agrees with what 1 intimated before. Now I appeal to any free Judge, how likely thefe liquid parti- cles are to approve themfelves of that na- ture and power, as to be able by erecting and knitting themfelves together for a moment of time, to bear themfelves . fo, M 71 The Holy Guide. Lie.?. ■ -• • as with one joint contention of ftrength, locaufeanarbitrarious obligation of the fpirits into this or that determinate part of the body j but the abfurditie of this 1 havefufficientlyinfinuated already. 2. The Nerves, I mean the Marrow of them, which is the fame fubftance with the brain, have no fenfej as is demonftra- ted from aCM/Ji^ or Catochus j butl will not accumulate Arguments in a mat- ter fo palpable. As for that little fprunt piece ofthe brain, which they call the Co- nacioH) that this mould be the very fub- ftance, whofe natural faculty it is to move itfelf, and by its motion and nods to de- termine the coarfe of the fpirits into this or that part ofthe body, feemstomeno lefle foolifh and fabulous then the Storie oSlkomai Harrington^ Culpepper s man, who tells a Tale of his Matters Ghoft,&;c. If you heard but the magnificent ftory that is told ofthe little lurking Mufhrome,bow it does not onely hear and fee, but ima- gines, reafens, commands the whole fa- brick of the body more dexteroufly then an Indian Boy does an Elephant: what an acute Logician, fubtil Geometrician, prudent Statefman, skilful Phyfitian, and profound Philofopher he is / and then afterwards by difie&ion you difcover this worker cf miracles to be nothing but a poor Li B. 3 . The Holy Guide. 7 3 poor filly contemptible Knob, or Prctu- bernacy, confiding of a thin Membrane, containing a little pulpons mattery much of the fame nature of the red of the brain \ Spedatum admiffi rifum teneatis amlcil 3. Would you not fooner laugh at it, then go about to confute it > and truly I may the better laugh at it now, having already confuted it in what I have afore merrily argued concerning the red of the brain. 4.T fhal therfore make bold to conclude, That the imprefle of fpontaneous motion is neither from the animal fpirits, nor from the brain, &c. therefore that thofc operations that are ufually attributed nn- to the foul, are really incompetible W any part of the body; and therefore, as in the laft chapter 1 hinted, I fay, That the foul is not ameer modification of the body , but a fubftance diftinft there- from. 5. Now we are to enquire, Whether this fubftance diftinft from what we ordinari- ly call the body, bealfo it felf a corpore- al fubftance, or whether it be incorpore- al? If you fay that it is a corporeal fub- ftance, you can underftand no other then matter more fubtil and tenuous then the U animal a.<£ 74 The Holy Guide. L1B.3 animal fpirits themfelves, mingled with them, and difperfed through the veflels and poroiitiesof the body ; for there can be no penetration of dimenfions : But I need no new arguments to confute this fond conceitjforwhatl faidof the animal fpirits before, is applicable with all eafe and fitnefle to this prefent cafe -, and let ic befufficientthat 1 advertife you fomuch- and fobeexcufed from the repeating of the fame things over again. 6. Icremaines therefore that we con- clude, That that which impreffes fponta- neous motion upon the body\or more im- mediately upon the animal fpirits: That which imagines, remembers, and reafons 3 is an immaterial fubftance, diftinft from the body, which ufes the animal fpirits and the brain for inftruments in fuch and fuch operations. And thus we have found afpiritina proper no ion and fignifica- tion, that hath apparently thefe faculties in it, it can both underftand and move corporeaj matter. 7. And now this prize that we have won will prove for ourdeligne in this new me- thod of Phyfick and Philofophy of very great confequence ; for it is obvious here i to cbferve that the foul of man is asit| were^>ctA/xfit©€«, a compendious ftatueof the Deity 5 her fubftance is a folid Effigies 1 on Lib.?. * he Holy Guide. 7 5 of God ; and therefore, as with eafe,we confider the fubftance and motion of the vaft Heavens on a little fphere, or Globe, fowemay with like facility contemplate the Nature of the Almighty in this little Model of God, the foul of man, enlarging to infinity what we obferve in our felves When we {transfer it unto God, as we doe imagine thefe Circles which we view on the Globe, tobevaftly bigger while we fancy them as defcribed in the Heaven. 8. Wherefore we being allured of this, That there is a fpiritual fubftance in our felves, in which both thefe properties doe relide, viz,, of the underftanding, and of moving the corporeal matter 5 let-usbut eularge our minds fo as to conceive as well as we can of a fpiritual fubftance that is able to move and a&uate all matter what- foever, never fo far extended, and after what way and manner foever it pleafe,and that it hath not onely the knowledge of this or that particular thing,but a diftinct and plenary cognizance of all things; and we have indeed a very competent appre- henfion of the nature of the eternal and invisible God., who, like the foul ofmani does not indeed fall under fenfe^but does every where operate fo, that hisperfonis eafily to be gathered from what is difco- vered by our cutwardfenfes. U % CHAP; 76 1 he Holy Guide. Lib. 3 CHAP. VI. Of Hants, that the meer motion of the matter may do fomething , yet it will not amount to the production of Plants. That it U no botch in Nature, that fome Phenomena be ■ the refults of Motion , others of fubjlantial forms. That beauty is not ^a meer fancy, and that the beauty and vertue of Vlants vs an Argument that they are made for the ufe of our bodies from an intellectual prin- ciple. , 1. TTOw weak is Man , if youcQnfider fl his nature , what faculties he hath, and in what order he is in refpeft of the reft of the Creatures? And indeed, though his body be but weak and dif- armd^yet his inward abilities of Reafon, and artificial contrivance ^ is admirable, both for finding out thole fecret Medi cines , which God prepared for the ui'e of Man,in ihe Bowels of the Earth^of Plants and Minerals 'i. And firft of Vegetables^ where I (hall touch only thefe four Heads , their Form and Beauty, their Seed, their Signatures, and their great ufe, as well for Medicines as fuftenauce 5 and that we may the bet- ter underftand the advantage we have in this L I B. 5 . The Holy Guide. 7 7 this clofer contemplation of the works of Nature, we are in thefirft place to take notice of the condition of the fubftance, which we call matter, how fluid and flip- pery, and undeterminate it is of it felf * or if it be hard, how unfit it is to be chan- ged into any thing elie ; and therefore all things rot into a moifture before any- thing can be generated of them, as we foften the wax before we fet on the feal. 3. Now therefore, unlefs we will be fooliih , as becaufe the uniform motion of the Air , orfome more fubtil corporeal Element, may fo equally comprefs or bear againft the parts of a little vaporous moi- fture, as to form it into round drops ( as we fee in the dew,and other experiments) and therefore becaufe this more rude and general motion can dofomething 9 to con- clude that it does all things : We muft in all reafon confefs , that there is an eternal Mind and Vertue, whereof the matter is thus ufefully formed and changed. 4. But meer rude and undirected mo- tion, becaufe naturally it will have fome kind of refults,that therefore it will reach to fuch as plainly imply a wife contrivance of counfel, isfo ridiculous a Sophifme, as I have already intimated , that it is more fit toimpofe upon the inconliderate fouls tl 1 of J 8 the Holy Guide. Lib.j — m n x. ■ of fools and children, then upon men of mature Reafon,and well exercifed in Phi- lofophy, or the grave and well pra&ifed, feraf hie ally illuminated Ro fie Crucians. Admit that Rain,and Snow, and Wind,and Hail, and Iceland Thunder,and Lightning, and a Star 1 mention for examp!e,that may be let in amongft Meteors , by fome called tlellens Star , and is well known at Sea , I have fecn it melt Copper Veffels aboard a (hip y it cometh of an heap of fuch va- pours as are carried by violent crofs Winds up from the Earth 5 and fuch like Meteors may be the produces of heat and cold, or of the motion and reft of certain fmall particles of the matter 5 yet that the ufeful and beautiful contrivance of the Branches, Flowers, and Fruits of Plants mould be fo too, ( to fay nothing yet of Minerals,and the bodies of men ) is as ridiculous andfupine a collection, as to infer, That becaufc meer heat and cold does foftenand harden Wax , and puts it into fome fliape or other, that therefore this meer heat and cold, or motion and reft,without any art and direftion , made (the Silver Seal too , and graved upon it fo curioufly fome Coat of Arms, or the (hape of fome Bird or Beaft, as an Eagle,a Lyon, &c % nay indeed this inference is more tolerable far then the other $ thefeeffe&s l " r — c " ;: - • of LlE.?. The Holy Guide- 79 Art being more eafie, and lefle noble then thofe other of Nature. 5. Nor is it any deficiency at all in the works of Nature, that fome particular Vhtnornena be but the eafie refults of that general motion communicated unto the matter from God ; others the effects of more curious contrivance , cr of the Di- vine Art , or Reafon ( for fuch are the Koyw OT-«?|UfltTi;co*, the Rationet Seminales^) incorporated in the Matter,efpecially the Matter it felf being in fome fort vital, elfe it would not continue the motion that it is put upon, when it is occafionally this or the other way moved; and befides the Nature of God being the mod perfect fulnefsof life that is pofllbly conceivable, it i? very congruous,that this outmoft and remoteft fhadow of himfelf, be fome way, though but obfcurely vital: Wherefore things falling off by. degrees from the higheft perfection, it will be no uneven or unproportionable ftep,if descending from the top of this utmoft Creation, Man^ in whom there is a more fine conception , or reflexive Reafon,wfiich hangs on, as every man hath fo much experience as to have feen the Sun, and other vifible Objects, by reflexion in the Water and Glafles , and this as yet (hall be all I will fay for this xeafonj 1 will give you more then I pro- U 4 mifed, 8o the Holy Guide. Lib. 3. mifedin the Contents, by four Prop oflti- ons concerning the nature of Concepti- ons , and they (hall be proved ; andalfo of the main deception of Senfe, that Co- lour and Image may be there where the thing feen is not ; But becaufe it may be faid, That notwithftanding the Image in the Water be not in theobje&,but a thing mcerly phantaftical, yet there may be co- lours really in the thing it felf; I will urge further this experience. That divers timers men (ee direttly the fame objc& doublets two Candles for one,which may happen from diftemper^oroth erwife with- out diftemper if a man will 5 the Organs being either in their right temper, or equally diftempered , the Colours and Images in two fuch Characters of the fame thing, cannot be inherent therein, becaufe the thing feen cannot be in twp places. 6. One of thefe Images therefore is not inherent in the Obje&jbut the Teeing, the Organs of the light arc then in equal temper or diftemper , the one of them is no more inherent then the other, and c;onfequently,neither of them both are in the Objedts , which is the firft proposition mentioned in the precedent number. 7. Secondly, that the Image of any thing by reflexion in a Glafs 3 orVVater, or LlB.3- r he Holy Guide. 8 1 or the like, is not any thing in, or behind the Glafs, or in,or under the Water, every man may grant to himfelf; which is the fecond Propoiition of Des Cartes, For thirdly, we are to eonijder, firft, That every great agitation or concufiion of the brain ( as it happeneth from a ftroke,efpecially if the ftroke be upon the eye) whereby the Optick Nerve fufferech any great violence,thereappeareth before the Eyes a certain light, which light is no- thing without , but an apparition only; all that is real being the concufiion or mo- tion of the parts of the Nerve; from which experience we may conclude, That apparition of light is really nothing but mQtion within If therefore from Lucid bodies there can be derived motion , fo as toafFett the Optick Nerve in fitch manner as is proper thereunto,there -will follow an Image of light fomewhere in that line, by which the motion was at laft derived to the eye, that is to fay, in the Object, if we look dire&lyonit , and in the Glafsor Water, when we look upon it in the line of reflexion, which in effect is the third Pro- position, namely. That image and colour is but an apparition to us of that motion, agitation, or alteration, which the objeft: worketh in the brain, orfpirits, orfome internal fubftance in the head. 4, But 8 2 The Holy Guide* LiB. $ 4. But that from all lucid, mining, and illuminate bodies, there is a motion pro- duced to the eye, and through the eye, to the Optick Nerve , and fo into the Brain, by which the apparition of light or colour is effe&ed , is not hard to prove. And firft, it is evident that the Fire , the only lucid body here upon Earth , worketh by motion equally every way, infomuch as the motion thereof flopped or inclofed, it is prefently extinguished , and no more lire. And further, that that motion whereby the fire worketh is dilation and contraction of it felf alternately, com- monly called Scintillation, or glowing, is manifeft alfo by experience; from fuch motion in the fire muft needs a rife a reje- ction, orcaftingfromitfelf off that part of the medium which is contiguous to it> whereby that part alfo rejeð the next, and fo fuccelively one part beatethback another to the very eye , and in the fame manner the exteriour part of the eye prefleth the interiour f the Laws of re- fraction ftillobferved.) Now the interi- our coat of the eye is nothing elfebut a piece of the Optick Nerve, and therefore the motion isftill continued thereby into the Brain 3 and by refinance or re-action of the Brain, is alfo a rebound into ihe Op- tick Nerve again,which we not conceiving as L i B,3- The Holy Guide. 8 3 as motion or rebound from within , do think it is without, and call it Light, as hath been already fhewed by the experi- ence of a ftroke : We have no reafon to doubt that the Fountain of Light, the Sun, worketh by any other wayes then, the Fire,at leaft in this matter : And thus all vifion hath its original from fuch mo- tion as is here defcribed 3 for where there is no light, there is no fight ; and there- fore colour muft be the fame thing with light , as being the effeft of the lucid bo- dies,their difference being only this, That when the light cometh dire&Iyfrotn the Fountain to the eye , or indirectly by re- flexion from clean and polite bodies, and fuch as have not any polite bodies , and fuch as have not any particular motion internal to alter it , we call it light ; but when it cometh to the eye by reflexion, from uneven, rough, and courfe bodies, or fuch as are affected with internal mo- tion of their own that may alter k , then we call it Colour^ colour and light differ- ing only in this, that the one is pure, and the other perturbed light } by that which hath been faid-, not only the truth of the third Propofition , but alfo the whole manner of producing liglu: and colour is apparent 5. As colour is not inherent in theob- jea, 84 the Holy Guide. L I B*3* jeft,but an effeft thereof upon us, caufed by fuch motion in the obje&,as hath been described *, fo neither is found in the thing we hear, but in our felyes -, one ma- nifeft iign thereof, is, that as man may fee, foalfohe may hear doubleand treble by multiplication of Ecchoes,which Ecchoes are founds as well as the Original 5 and not being in one and the fame place, can- not be inherent in the body that maketh them j nothing can make any thing which is not in it felf; the Clapper of a Bell hath no found in it, but motion, and ma- keth motion in the internal parts of the Bell ; fo the Bell hath motion and not found, that imparteth motion to the air ; and the air hath motion, but not found ; the Air imparteth motion by the Ear and Nerve unto the Brain *, and theBrain hath motion, but not found > from the Brain it reboundeth back into the Nerves out-* ward, and thence it becometh an Appari- tion without, which we call found. And to proceed to the reft of theSenfes, it is apparent enough, that the fmell and tafte of the fame thing are not the fame to eve- ry man,and therefore are not in the thing (melt or tafted, but in the men ; fo like- wife the heat we feel from the tire is ma- nifeftlyinus, ahd is quite different from the heat which is in the fire 3 for our heat is Lib. 3. ?bt Boly Guide. 35 is pleafurcorpain, according as it is great or moderate ; but in the cool therels no fuch thing : By this the iaft is proved,™*, that as invifiori, fo alfo in conceptions that arife from other Senfes,thefubject of their inherence is not in theObjett,butin the Sentinent : And from hence alfo it followeth, that whatfoever accidents or qualities our Senfes make us think there be in the world, they be not there, but are feeming and Apparitions only 5 the things that really are in the world without us^are thofe motions by which thefefeemingsare caufed 5 and this is the great deception o f fenfe, which alfo is to be by fenfe correct- ed ; for as fenfe telleth me, when I fee di- rectly,thattbecolourfeemeth to be in the object ■-, fo alfo fenfe telleth me,when 1 fee by reflection that colour is in the object, But now I am out of the way from the outward Creation of Man, in whom there is a principle of more fine and reflexive reafon, which hangs on, though not in that manner, in the more perfect kind *f Brutes, as fenfe alfo ( loth to be curbed with too narrow compafsj layes hold up- on fome kind of Plants,as in thofe fundry forts of Zoophyta , but in the reft there are no further footfteps difcovered of an a- nimadveriive form abiding in them ; yet there be the effects of an inadvertent form ( khy& 86 The Holy Guide. L1B.3 ( \oyQ- '4w\@-) of materiated or' % incor- porated Art or feminal Reafon 5 I fay, it is no uneven jot to pafs from the more faint and obfcure example of Spermatical life, to the more confiderable effects of gene- ral Motion in Minerals, Metals, nor yet to fay any thing 6f the Medicines extracted, mortified, fixe, diflblv'd^and incorporated with their proper Veagles, becaufe we have intended it our laft bufinefs, tore- turn to Minerals , Metals, and fundry Me- teors, whofe eaiie and rude ftiapes have no need of any particular principle of life, or Spermatical form diftinct from the reft, or motion of the particles of the matter. 1 o. But there is that curiofity of form and beauty in the more noble kind of Ptants,bearing fuch a futablenefs and har- mony with the more refined fenfc and fa- gacityof the foul of Man, that he cannot choofc C his intellectual touch being fo f weedy gratified by what it deprehends in fuch like objects) but acknowledge that fome hidden caufe, much a kin to his own nature that is intellectual, is the contriver and perfetter of thefe fo plealant fpe&a- clesin the world. Nor is it at all to thepurpofe to object, that this bufinefs of Beauty and comelinefs of proportion is but a conceit , becaufe fome men acknowledge no fuch thing,and all Lib.?. ihe Holy Guide. 87 aTl things are alike handfome to them , who yet notwithstanding have the ufe of their eyes as well as other folks ; for I fay, this rather makes for what we aim at, that Pulchritude is conveyed indeed by the out- ward fences unto the foul, but a more in- tellectual faculty is that which relifhes ic 5 asanAfirological, or better, a Geometrical Scheam \t lee in by the eyes,but the Demon- stration is difcern'd by Keafon : And there- fore it is more rational to affirm , that fome intellectual principle was the Author of this Pulchritude of things, then that they mould be thus fafhioned without the help of that principle : And to fay there isnofuch thing as Pulchritude , and fome fay, xhext'is noway to felicity: The firft, 1 anfwer, is, becaufe fome mens fouls are fo dull and ftupid. The firft cannot reliifh all objetts alike in that refpeft : The fe- cond knows not Hrfpinefs , nor the way to long Life, nor the means to Health, nor how to return] from Age to Touth,8cc. which is as abfurd and groundlefs, as to conclude there is no fuch thing as Reafon and Zte- monjiration , becaufe a natural fool cannot reach unto it. But that there is fuch a thing as The Holy Guide, Long life, and a certain way to Health, not as yet known in 'England, \ will demonftrate : The way to Health \ (hall (hew you anon in this Book, the 88 The Holy Guide. L1B.5 the reft in another Part, as I promifed you. i2 t Now that there is fiich a thing as Beauty ,and that it is acknowledged by the whole generations of men, to be in Trees, Flowers, and Fruits, and the adorning of buildings in all Ages, is an example, and undeniable teftimony ; for what is more ordinary with them , then taking in flowers and fruitage for the garnifhingof their work? Betides, I appeal to any man that is not funk into fo forlorne a pitch of Degeneracy,that he is as ftupid to thefe things as the bafcft of Beafts, whether for example,a rightly cut Tefraedrunt, Cube or Icofaedrum , have no more VulcWitude in them,thenany rude broken bone lying in the field or high-wayes : Or to name other folid Figures , which though they be not regular properly fo called, yet have a fet- led Idea,aud Nature, as zCone, Sphere, or Cylinder, whether the light of thefe do not gratifie the minds of men more , and pre- tend to more elegancy of fhape , then thofe rude cuttings or clippings of Free- ftone that fall from the Mafons hands,and (erve for nothing but to fill up the mid- dle of the wall, and fo to be hid from the eye* of Man for their uglinefs: And it is obfrrvable,that if Nature (hape any thing near this Geometrical accuracy, that we take notice LiB.3- 7he Holy Guide. 89^ notice of it with much content and plea- fure, as if it be but exa&ly round, as there be abundance of fuch {tones upon Mefque 9 a hill in Arabia j 1 havefeen them there, ordinarily Quinquangular, and have the fides parallels , though the Angels be Unequal , as is feen in feme little '(tones* and in a kind of Alabafter found here in England , and other pretty (tones found w^onBulvmon-hiU near Sidmouth in Devon- floire, and near Stratford upon Av on\ and iri Tyms Grove at Colton, and at lardebick^ Stony-hilly the Shawes and Quarry Pit, Ha- zle-hill, and Ajh-hill in Warwickshire , are found fuch ftones that grow naturally carved with various works, fome with Ro- fes,others with Lions 3 Eagles.andall man- ner of delightful works 5 thefe ftones, I fay, gratifie our fight, as having a nearer cognation with the foul of man that is rational and intellectual, and therefore is well pleafed when it meets with any out- Ward objeft that fits and agrees with thofe congenite Ideas her own nature is fur- nifhedwith : For Symmetry 3 Equality , and Correfpondency of parts,is the difcernment of Reafon, not the* object of Senfe, as I In our Harmony fore- /wf Gtf^ wi/fcfc them. I. in Very plant bath its feed 5 Rofie JC Crucians therefore fay there are fe- cret Myfteries lie hidden in them, which mould be our delight to find out ; for Divine Providence madeall goodforthe life of man : And this being no neceiTary refult of the motion of the matter, as the whole contrivance of the plant indeed is not j and it being of great confequence that they have feed for the continuance of propagation of their whole fpecies ; aad for the gratifying of mans Art alfo, indu- ftry andneceifity (for much of Husban- dry and Gardening lies in this) it cannot but be the aft of Counfel to rurnifh the feveral kinds of Plants with their feed, e- fpecially the earth being of fuch a na- ture that though at firft for- a while it might bring forth all manner of Plants, (as fome will haveit.alfo to have brought forth all kinds of Animals) yetatlaftit would grow fo fluggifh, that without the advantage of thofe fmall compendious princi- L1B.3. The Holy Guide. 93 principles of generation , the Grain of feed would yield nofuch births, no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unlcfle you poura little water in- to it hrft, and then for fo many Eafons full, you may fetch upfo many Tankards full. 2. Nor is it material to obje&, that (lin- king weeds and poifonous plants bear feed too, as well as the moft pleafant and ufe- ful; for even thofe (linking Weeds and poifonous Plants have their ufe in Rofit Crucian Medicines, as you (hall know here- afters befides our common Phy tick- mongers often ufe them as their fan- cy guides them, grounded upon no o- ther reafon then woful and deadly expe- rience; fometimes the induftry ot man is exerciied by them, to weed them out where they are hurt fab, which reafons, if theyfeemflight, let us but confider, that if humane induftry had nothing to con- flict and ftruggle with, the fire of mans fpirit would be half extinguifhed in. the fle(h,and then we (hall acknowledge that that which I havealledged, is not fo con- temptible nor invalid. 3. Eut fecondiy. Who kndwes but it is fo with poyfonous Plant?, as vulgarly is fancied concerning Toads,- and ocher poifonous Serpents that lick the V r enome X 3 from 94 The Holy Guide. L1B.5. from off the jearth> So poifonou's Plants may well draw to them all the maligne Juice and nourifhment, that the other may be more pure and defecate, as there are Receptacles in the body of man-, and Emunftoriesjto draine off fuperflitous Choler and Melancholy, &c. 4. Laftly, It is very well known by them that know any thing in Nature and Phy- fick, That thofe Herbs that the rude and ignorant world call Weeds, are the mate- rials of very foveraign Medicines; that Aco r nitum Hyemahy or Winter Woolfs bain^ that otherwife is rank poifon, is reported to prevail mightily againft the biting of Vi- pers, Scorpions, and mad Dogs, which Sir Chritfopber Heydon affenteth unto, and that that Plant that beares death in the very name of it, Solanum Lethiferm7t,prc- vents death by procuring fleep,if it be applied in a Fever 5 nor are thofe things to be deemed unprofitable, fay the Rofie Crucians, whofe ufe our heavy ignorance vvillnct let us underftand > but they will teach us as followeth. 5. We come now to the Signatures of Plant?, which indeed refpetts us more pro perlyand adequately then theother,and is a key ( as the Rofie Crucians fay J co en- ter man into the knowledge and ufe of the Treafures of Natures I demand, thereforej L \ B* g. Tk: Holy Guide 9 5 therefore, Whether it be not a very eafie and genuine inference from the obferving thatfeveral herbs are marked with fome mark or fign that intimates their vertue , what they are good for; and there being fuch a creature as Msn in the World, that can read and underftand thefe fignes and characters} hence to collect chat the Au- thor both of man and them, knew the nature of them both ; and belides Di- vine providence would onely initiate and enter mankid in the ufeful knowledge of her Treafures, by the Seraphical illumi- nated Kofie Crucians, leaving the reftco imploy the vulgar chat chey might noc be idle ; for che Theacreof che world is an exercife of mans wit, and cherefore all things are in fome meafure obfeure and intricate : that thefedulity ofthat divine fpark, the foul of man, may have matter ofconqueft and triumph, when he hath done bravely by a fuperadvenienraHft- anceofGod. 6. But that there be fome plants that bear a very eminent fignature of their na- ture and ufe, for examjAejCapilliti venerti> Folytrichon, or Maidenhaire ; the Lye in which it is fodden or infufed, is good to warn the head, and make the hair grow in thofe places that are bare; the decoction of Quinces, which area downy and hairy X4.. Frui V 9 6 The Holy Guide. f L1B.5 Fruit, is acconnted good for the fetching again hair that hath been fallen by the French Pox; the leaf of Balm, or Allelujab 9 or Wood-finely as alfo the roots of Author -a , reprefent the heart in figure, aud are CardiacaL j . Walnuts bear the whole fignature of the head i the outward green Corte x an- fwers to the Pericranium, and a Salt made of it is Angular good for Wounds in that part, as the Kernel is good for the Brains, which it refembles. Vmbelkus Venerisis powerful to provoke Luft, as Do&or Culpepper affirmesj as alfo your feveral forts of Satyr ions , which have the evident refemblance of the general parts upon them ; Aran efpecially, and all your OrchiJJes, that they have given names unto, from fome beaft or other, as Cyno- forchis, Orchis, Modes , Tragorchis, &c. the laft whereof notorious for itsGoatifh fmel, and Tufts not unlike the beard of that lecherous Animal, is of all the reft the molt powerful incentive to luft. 8. The leaves of Hypericon are very thick pricked, or pointed with little holes, and it is a lingular good Wound-herb, as ufe- (ul alfo for de-obftru&ing the pores of the body. 9. Scorpioidhes, Echium y or Scorpions grafs y i£ like the crooked taile of a Scorpion ; and Qphioglofiuni LiB.g. The Holy Guide. 97 Ophiogloffum, or Adders Tongue, hath a very plain and perfect refeinblance of the Tongue of a Serpent; as alfo Opbiofcoro- dm of the entire head and upper parts of the body;and thefe are all held very good againft poifon,and the biting of Serpents; & generally all fuch plants as are (peck- led with fpots like the skins of Vipers, or other venomous creatures, are known to be good againft the flings or bitings of them, and are powerful obje&s againft poyfon. 10. Thus did Divine Providence by natural Hieroglyphicks 3 readftortLettures totherude wit of vulgar man; others of the Serapbically illuminated Fraternity be entred, and lumciently experienced of thefe,found out the reft, it being very rea- sonable that other hearbs that had not fuch fignatures , might be very good for Medicinal ufes,as well as they that had. 11. Rofie Crucians have quickned and actuated their Phlegmatick natures to more frequent and effe&ual tuner}; for their hng lives^bealtb^nd youth fulne[s y (hews they were not very nery 5 to fey nothing of their happinef^kpowled^ejricbes wifdeme and vertue, becaufe I have in this Treatife fpo-* ken of it largely. CHAP. 98 The Holy Guide. L I B.3. CHAP. VIII. j, 2. Of tfo ufefnlnefs of plants : 3^4. ^fcJ of the Works of God, 2. \70u (hall now briefly take notice of X the ufefulnefs and profitableneft qf Plants > both for Phyfick and Food , and ! then pafs on to the confideration of the infpired K0//e Crucians, what their Medi- cines are: As for the common ufes of Plants Herbals teach you fomething; but I refer you to the fmgular Medicines of R0- fieCrucians in my Book of The Harm, of the World',\,2Sor thefalvation of your health j Animals know as much by inftinft and nature; and that which is moftobferva- ble here is this, That brute Beads know as much as many Phyficians do that are taught by Herbals only; and thefedeny the Power of God in the works of Nature, and the power of Nature in the skill of IVIan , that it mould be impoflible to make Trees bear fruit in December, and Apple-trees to grow, to bkfiom, and bear Apples, contrary to fyid, in March. 2. Beafts have knowledge in the vertue of Plants as well as Men 5 for the Toad being overcharged with thepoyfon of the Spider^ L) B. 3. The Holy Guide. $9 Spider, (as is well known) hath recourfe to the Plantane-leaf. The Weafei,when (he is to encounter the Serpent , arms her fe\f with eating of Rue. TheDog,when he is fick at the ftomack , knows his cure, falls to his grafs,vomits, and is well. The , Swallows make life of Celandine^ the Len- net of Euphragiafor the repairing of their fight. And the AfTe,when he is opprefied with melancholy , eats of the herb Afple- nium^ov Miltwaft 5 and fo eafes himfelf of the fwelhng of the Spleen. The Raven makes ufe of Cinquefoyle for the prolonga- tion of his life , to fometimes fix or fev'en hundred years ; and therefore I think it is, that the Kofie Crucians prefcribe the oyl of Ravens, Swallows, and Harts, for the ufe of man to annoint himfelf, to conti- nue hisfreih and wel-complexioned body from wrinkles and lamenefs : and Didam- Hum Cretenfe is much ufed , as Wold you in my Wife mam Crown, and Temple of Wif- dome: Cretian Dittany cures Wounds of what nature foever. Which thing I conceive no obfcurein- dagation of Providence; for they doing that by inftinft and Nature , which Men, who have free Reafon, cannot but ac- krfcwledge to be very pertinent and fit- ting,nay fuch,that the skilmileft Phyfitian will approve and allow j and theft Crear* v tures I oo The Holy Guide* Li B . % tures having no fuch reafon and skill! themfelves as to turn Phyfitians, it mufti needs be concluded by vertue ef that! principle that contrived them, and made! them of that nature they are, enabled} themalfo to do thefc tilings. 3. Let us now confiderthe Fruits of the Trees,, where I think it will appear we^ ry manifeftly , that there was one worker of Miracles , and inffirer of Rofie Crucians 5 I might now reach out to Exotick Plants, fuch as the Cinnamon-tree, the Balfome- tree, and the Tree that bears the Nutmeg, j invelopped the Mace , as alfo the famous I Indian Nut-tree , which at once (as the I Rofie Crucians fay J affords almoft all the | neceffaries of life 5 for if they cut but the I Twigs at Even'mg,there is a plentiful and pleafant juice comes out , which they re- j ceive into Bottles, and drink inftead of Wine, a*d out of which they extract fuch an Aqua vit* », as is veryfoveraign againft all manner of fickneffes'jthe branches and boughs they make their Houfes of, and the body of the tree being very fpungy with- in, though hard without, they eaiify con- trive into the frame and ufe of their Ca- noes^or Boats, the kernel of the Nut ferves them for bread and meat , and the fhe#ls for cups to drink in , and indeed they are not nicer empty cups, for there is found a delicious Lib.?. The Holy Guide. id delicious cooling milk in them 5 befides 3 there is a kind of hemp that inclofes the •Nut 5 of which they make Ropes and Ca- bles , and of the fineft of it Sails for their ihips j and the Leaves are fo hard and jharp pointed, that? they eafily make Nee- dles or Eodkinsof them for ftitching their Hails , and for other neceflary purpofes; and that Providence may fhew her felf benign as well as wife, this fonotablea Plant is not reftrain'd to 9ne Coaft of the World, as thtEaft Indies, but is found in Africa, Arabia^nd in all the 1 (lands of the Weft Indies, as Hifpaniola, Cuba, where our men are viftorers,and feveral other places of the new-found World. 4. But I thought fit to infill upon there things by way of Proof and Inftru&ion, but to contain my felf within the compafs of fuch objetts as are neceflary for our knowledge, and familiarly and ordinarily before our eyes, that we may the better (thefe things underftood) take occafion from thence to demonftrate the Rofie Cru- cian way to health , and their ordinary Medicines which to us are not yet known, &c. CHAP, 102 The Holy Guide. L1B.3. ! CHAP. IX. 1 . The Rode Crucian way how to get health 2. the caufeswhy we eat food. 3. Of the fir ft nature of the World. 4. A meafure of raw and temperate meat: «$. And the caufe of the fiery , and fcummy GaV, 6 . and needle fs muddy bowels the Milt 5 7. Nature \ carelefs of making the reins of Vrine draw- ers -, 8. drink^efs Animals have none at all. ] 9. Bow tr cleanfe your felf from thefe idle \ Bowels, 10. and avoid all Vifeafes. i. T">0 you not confider the weaknef*!: y_J of man , what faculties he hath,) and in what order he is in refpe&of thei reft of the Creatures, Rofie Crucians ob-i fer.ve, though his body be weak anddif-f armed, yet his inward abilities of reafon, 1 and artificial contrivance is admirable ; he is much given tofearch outtheM^i-j anal vertues of plants, Wights, and Minerals^ and hath found out thofe that were of fo prefent and great confequence, as to be Antidotes againft poyfon , that would fo I quickly have dilpatched mankind; it were good for us to demonftrate the Rofie Crucian Medicines, now our Landij afflitled with a fickjtefi called the new Vifeafe^ of which all Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 103 all forts die^ withoift remedy, for none as yec have prefcribed a Medicine-, for young men that deftre to live, and for old men that wifh for health, without which no life is fweet and favory 3 then let us bend our felves to cure our brethren firft , and endeavour to (hew the means ( befides the common Collegian Doctors drenches, or Culpepers way , how every man may gee aud keep his health, that is fomething ftrange , but a vowed truth ; the confenc and equal ( I mean agreeable to kind ) temper and dulling our four firft begin- nings, theftaffe of our bodies; for if this knot be broken, and they loofe towards their former liberty , they wax proud and ftrong, and fight; for their nature is toge- ther by the ears, and put usto pain, and lets the rule of nature, and this they call the difeafe. 2. Then to handle one at once , as oar manner is, and will keep our cuftome frill, to keep our health and body in temper, feems no fuch matter to me as the world would make it , even plainly impcffible, when I know allthewayes and entries to let in difeafes and diftempers of the body, may by fmall heed be flopped and fen- ced. 3 . We muft needs draw breath and eat meat ; for the caufe I mail fpeak of it in its J04 The Holy Guide. L1B.3- its place*, and as this is not all clear and agreeable , fo Nature hath her leavings 5 and again, labour and reft are needful, and perhaps we cannot chufe but be moved in mind with joy, grief, fear, hope, and fuch like paffions , though the Stoickj deny ne- cefTity, faith Des Cartes. 4. By fo many wayes and gates difeafes may enter , if they be not well watched and looked unto , which may be done in reafon,and hath been done often, as they affure us that have lived long without all difeafes and ficknefTes, as John Harding re- lates of a Minifter, called John Macl^aine 9 to have continued for thefe fivefcore years laftpaft together in health,and after his hair,teeth,eyes and flefli renewed, and became young again- and fuch like fto- ries are to be found enough , if we might ftay to feek them j fome are contented for all but air and meat, but thefe fay they have often feeds of difeafes lye hid iii them, unable to be forefeen or prevented, as we find thofe meats that make the fineft fhew fas Wine, and Sugar, and fuch enti- cing baits)to have hid in them molt hate- ful difeafes and dregs in the bottom 5 fo the air, when it feems the beft and higher}, yet is fometimes infe&ed and poyfoned with venomous breath,fent out and thruft into it , either from below, or from the Stars L1B.3. TkeHol) Guide. 10$ 5* Scars of Heaven, "and asthe caufe is hid- den and unknown to u §, fo the hurt im- poflible to be avoyded and prevented. 5. If I lift to let rny fpeech run ac large, efpeciallyin other mens grounds, 1 could find that that Divifion is falfe; firft, ( to come to meat anon ) and then if it were true, yet the caufe of that in- fection not unable to be forefeen and warded $ but I am fo forry for the fault above , that I can the better take heed hereafter \ yet methinks it is a grief to hear the harmlefs and glorious divine things above, fo defaced with (lander, and no man makes anfwer for them. 6. Gentle Reader, bepleafedto ftay a little^If the Stars have no light, and fo no power but from the Sun y thatmoft whol- fome and profperous creature, then they hurt him molt wrongfully, and reprove themfelves very rightly. And again, if they be buc a piece of the finer part, and firft nature, as it were, of the World, as I have inevved in my Book of lbs Temple of tVifedome, then they be the wholfomeft things in the World, fo farbe they from poyfoned (lander: And fo let their Lights be never fogrofly mingled in their meet- ings, and thereby that State of the Wea- ther changed fuddenly, and from thence our bodies troubled and turned iiuo Di« Y fcaft. io6 7 he Holy Guide. Lib. 3. feafes, becaufe they were not prepared and made ready for it, yet the things are good and profperous; and by know- Jedg of Aftrology, or influences of the 1 Planets, and races of the Stars, we may j prepare our felves, and prevent all, if we cannot have that happinefs to con- verfe with our Guardian Genius. Now for lower reflection, it is not worth the anfwcring t when there is fo much wafte ground in the World 5 then let uspafs over to that other Breach \ may we not i fhun the leaving baits in our Dyet, and : takefuch meat as is mod temperate and near our Nature, and then drefs the fame after the mod kindly and wholfome man- ner, feafoning it well with labour, mirth i and fleep > 7. And to be plain, I have (hewed in another part of this Treatife of mine^ fouiuch noted by our Writers, what a jewel of health it were to ufe all raw and I temperate meat, or becaufe we be wife I and vertuous, and this Dyet would per- I haps change our Nature of fire, but like Ibiiofopbers a quite contrary way , taking I the beft, whenas none is loft, and leaving I word, whick is that we now take, a Way j 1 fay, to ftrip of all groffhefs and foul- j nefs of bodies, the only hurt of them- j felves,and is the Food of all Difeafes. 8. I L i B . J . 1 he Holy Guide. \ 07 8. I will tcli you another way which you will think Grange, but you fhali find it true , if the meat be temperate, as I bid you chufe it, there is no hurt can. come thereby* ( if you keep rueafure in your felves ) fave from your leavings; thefein fo clear a Dyet firft will be very few 5 but if you would be ruled by my Counsel chichi Nature taught mc> chofe few ihould never hurt you. 9. Of all the Leavings in the body, there are three which the liver maketh moft troublefome unto usf for the reft are eafily difpatched ) a light and eafie,or ra- ther a fiery ("as fome call itj Choler ; a cold and heavy mud., called MeUncholly\ and the third is Vrine^ which I will treat of in the next Chapter , but thofe two the worfer *, and this fault is not in them- felves, but all by reafon of the needlefs and hurtful bowels in our bodies, ( as the Seeds-man ufeth to fow good and bad together ) which being of the fame kind and quality with thofe humors, do draw and pull them ftill unto them ( as all other parts and things do ) for their Food and nourifhmetat $ and fo by the narrow paftages too and fro, their greedi* nefs in pulling and holding, and a hun- dred fuch meanes, fubjeft to great mif- Y 3 chances^ Io8 rbe Holy Guide. L1B.3. chances, have brought in as many mif- chiefs, whereas Nature the great expeller of her unlike, and Enemies, if me had free choiceand liberty, would other wife I witheafe, and without hurt, expel thofe : Leavings, efpecially fo fmall a number i of the better fort info clean a Dyet, nay, i fetthe malice of thofe parts, ( thofe parts | are Milt, Gall, and Reins ) if there be not j fufficient (tore of other foul meat at hand, likeapoyfoned or a purging Me- : dicine, they ufe to draw good juices, » and to make food of them j what is notq maniftftedin this chapter, ftiall metho-. dically be demonstrated in the enfuing,: for Imtend to be ferious in this part of my Book, and will mew yon what Na-i cure taught me. CHAP. L»B.g. The holy Guide io9 CHAP. XI. 'i. Rofie Crucian Medicines made plain by ex- amples, and tbofe are above controlement. 2. That the wet Sun- beams declare fome fine and forrain fatnefs to nourijb mankind. 3 . How to live twenty yeers without food % as many creatures do. 4. Vfe and Cufiom a fecond Nature. <; . The Bird called Manuda. Viae a, and the finging Dog. 6. That the Camelion never eats food. 7. An experien- ced Medicine, and how to apply it with Pa- racelfus, and the Rofie Crucian new Art of Healing. 1. /^\F Ariftotle it is reported , Thai V^/he is the witty Spye of Nature, and as if he had been made in this mat- ter , he i"hevvs the need and ufe of the greater Entrails and Bowels of Wights , and faith very truly and wifely. The Heart and Liver as thefpring of Life and Food, be needful for all Wights, ad- ding to the hotter one the Brain to cool, and the Light s to c\enfe the Heat y ftaytng there as if he thought the other three un- profitable* nay for one of them in the fame Book, ( I fay ) telling the ftoriesof of the Hare and Camel, and giving the Y 3 reafoa 1 1 o the Holy Guide. LlB. g^ «*p-! " ■ reafon why they be both fo fwift, health* ful, long-liv'd and other good proper- ties above the reft enfeoffed, vouched in plain terms , the want of the fiery and fcummy Gall, as a great Enemy to them, for the Milt that muddy Bowel, that it may be left out as needlefs in the bodies of the better creatures. The Meadows near Cortina, and Maggadtre declare when by a ftrange and hidden vertue they be- reave the Beads thereof that graze upon them, of it; the Herb is called Affkninm y as I told you in the preceding Chapters, nay, than the Milt is not only idle, but hurtful, which all experience,even in our felves, hath taught it. 2. TheZwfe light Footmen, ( I fay, which I know not by what example un- lefs it were the want of the fame in the Camef, making the Beaft able to travel an hundred miles a day, and fo without drink fifteen dayes together ) being in their childhood purged of their Milt, prove thereby the moft light, fwifc, found and lafting Footmen in the World. 3. As for the veirts of Urine-drawers, as drinklefs creatures have aone at all, fo fome men have but one of them , as if nature pafled not to make any at all ; if we could forbear our drink f as thefe Beafts do by kind , and (bme men by cuftom) Lib.?. The Holy Guide. m cuftom ) we might the better fpare them, and avoid many mifchiefs in our bo-, dies. 4. Therefore the odd man, faraceifus^ I know not by what light, if not of the f.ofie Grofsy ( caft in I think from Seraphi- cal illumination ) not only fees thefe faults, but alfo finds ways to amend them, and to cut the mifchiefs off all thefe three noyfome parts, not with any yeilding Craft, but with Kofie Crucian divine kind of Healing, with Aurum ptabile^ &c, fo that to avoid all difeafes that fpring of theLeavings, take of Aurum ptabile one ounce; one pound of the Oyle of Ra- vens ; two round ofMiltwaji, or Aj$hnium> a handful of Cinkffoyh, otViftamnnm Cre- tenfe, Ophioglojfum and Scor fades , Eckiunt, of each a like quantity , and obferve the Afcendent and his Lord ; and the Moon, and Lord of the fixt, at your dis- cretion, and take the quantity of a Wal- nut every night and morning, and a- noynt the face and hands, and ( if you will ) the reft of the body : Kofie Crucian; have other healing and yeilding Medi- cines; you (hall know them in their places; this is fuch an experienced Me- dicine, that you know where to find it ; 1 need not (hew you to put out the fway and power of thefe idle bowels, or per- Y 4 hapj 112 7 he Holy Guide. L1B.3. hjps it mould not nee^ and in a ftock that eafech our clean Dyet Nature her felf as (he doth inthofe Meadows, by o- t her creatures, would alfo quite raze and difpatch them within a few genera- tions. 5. But I will go further. Hear a Rofie Crucian new and unheard of opinion, and yet let not your judgement run before you fee good reafon ; What if we could fafi for ever y and live without all food ? might not all hurt and dange r of meat be then foreftalled X if other Creatures , whofe life hangeth upon the fame hold, by the fufferancc , nay by the commandement efGod and Nature, do laft for ever , there is no Reafon but the fame common Nature will at laft fuffer it in us 5 Let us fee. And ,to ftep over the Camelion, becaufe it is a Cold and Hoodie fs Creature ; what fay we to a Bird which is an hot and perfect one > a bird in the Molucco Iflands, Manuda Viae* by name, that hath no feet at all, no more then an ordinary fifh, as Mr. Moer.e faith, and I have feen her ; the bignefs of her body and bill, as likewife the form of them , is much what of a Swallows, but the fpreading out of her wings and tail has no lefs compafs then an Eagles:, fhe lives and breeds iuthe Aire, born up \y tl;e force of rpind with more eafe then Archjtai Ll B. 3. The Holy Guide. 11 3 Archytas his Dove, and comes not near the earth but for her Burial; for the large- nefsand lightncfs of her wings and tail fuftain her without Latitude, and the laying of her Egges and brooding of her young is upon the back of the M*/tf 3 which is made hollow, as alfo the breaft of ihe Female, for the more eafie incubation, taking no other food ( as alas how (hould (he ?) then there is found : but whether (he lives meerly of the dew of Heaven, or cf flies and fuch like infe£h", 1 leave to others to difpnte 6. Nay 5 have you not heard of the LfttleVog in the. Weft Indies, which fing- eth fo fweetly all the night long , neither night nor day eating any thing > But there be examples in our kind as well ; then it is certain above control- ment : Sir Chriftopber Eeydon faith thers is a Moutblefs andfo a weatlefs people or kind of men about the head of Ganges , which liveth by the breath of their NoflrHs , except when they take a far journey, they mend their Viet with the fmell of flowers: and left you may think I lean upon bare Authorities without the fby of reafon, all the matter refts upon this reafon I told you before, that our life lay in the . hand ( belide a little exercife ) of two ijke meats, one for the Soul and Natural heat 114 7he Ho h GHid e- L1B.3. heat which is within us, and the fincft andfirftmoifturein our body; the other is without any meat, of the fame Tem- per with our body as near as may be, to ivphold the frame and building of the fame which I faid to be a fine Aiery and Fiery Flame, 7. And we are now grown fo out oi order, and fd much eftranged from our JLtherial fail Moifture and the life of God y t?hat we creep downward towards the Earth through difeafes, before we can reach the Life of the Vehicle ; within fix- (core years we dyc 9 and are hidden from the fenfible approach of renewing life. CHAP. XII. 1. Of Nature and her medicines experienced by Kofie Crucians . 2. Of the occult vertue ofMyfteries. 3. Of the healing and confu- ting medicines. 4. Of their ufe. 5. Of the Gout, Leprofie, IDropfie and Falling Sic^ uefs , &c. 1. ^J0w the Aire it felf, efpccially iN when it is evermore as the wet Sunbeams declare, fofprinkled with fome Fine f arraign fatnefo may feem (ufficient food LlB.g. The Holy Guide. u% food to nourifh the finer pare of our Frame, wherein the temper of w/r*^W, and his life ( tonching that point ) ftand- eth, which is as much as any meat can do to life , ( for it is not fed by common food, as i faid above ) though not e- nough for ftrength, becaufe the groffer, founder, and tougher parts wherein the ftrength lyeth, ma 1 want food in this ~D)ety and fail no doubt greatly; yet life Jkalllaftftill, as long as Aire and fir -ft tnci* fture holds, in my opinion : or if we think that too fpare a Dyet, we may mend it (as the mouthlefs people do ) with fmell of flowers: or rather, as we know Nature is able to draw Aire and other food which (he deiireth through j^he skin into all pla- ces of the body ; fo if (he had meat ap- plyed to the ftomach, (he would no doubt fatisfie her felf that way moft finely, with- out theheap of hurts let in at the broa4 and common gates, as we fee by exam- pie for Vrin)^ that all the while we lit in Water , we (hall never third: And for meat, I have heard Rofie Crucians fay, by ap- plying Q&mne in this fort they failed with- out all hunger for two years together. 2. And in like manner I have experi- enced this, and faded two dayes when I firft ftudied the nature of the Guardian Qmii i But if that would not ferve the turn. l 6 The Holy Guide, Li B.3. turn, and we mull needs receive in meat ac the common gate, yet we may let it pafs no further then the gate, and make theftomach in the mouth, which is the life of ComeRofie Crucians when they are Seraphic ally illuminated 5 and to provide enough for life and ftrength, and a great deal better for our health, then we do, becaufe the clearer part alone mould be received. And moreover I fay , for the cleardifpatchofthatour ordinary trou- ble and anoyance which your reverence will not fuffer me to name, although I might among Fhyfitians, but they knou* my meaning : But it (hall not need to fteal (hifts and holds if you will believe the %o fie Crucians y that we may eafily -fa ft all our life ( though it be three hundred years together) without all kind of meat, and to cu*t off all doubts and dangers of di- feafes thereof fpringing 5 and for my own part, I know fome that have fafted and lived in the holy orders of the Fraternity with- out all food tenyears fpace together. What need we fay more > if you be both fo hard of belief, and dull of fight 5 and reports of good Authors, nor my own experience will fink intoyou, nor yet can you fee the light of reafon mining before you; take here a few of ordinary matters in the life and ufe of men, and weigh one with a- aother v LiB.?,^ The Holy Guide. \\j nother; is ic not as common in life, and indeed needful, tofpir, and avoid ano- ther namelefs leaving? and to firing buc to fleepefpecially > If fome of thefe, nay all may be fpared , why not our meat alfo> let us fee a little, and by example, becaufe Reafonis both too long and too open to cavil. 3. To leave drink, which many have all their lives left ; Elizabeth Vrewe a Pts vonjhire Gentlewoman, is reported never to have [pat, nor the Indian Nation. Sir John Heydon faith, fo? knew one that kept the namelefs mat- ter forty daics together. And although this anfwereth not the queftion, yet it meweth the truth of the former Holy Story-, for if in fo foul and grofs a thing as dyet is, he could folong want its why not thefe men forever, foclear and line a diet, almoft empty and void of allleavings > For the grofler fort, which make up this foul and ihameful one we left before,asyou heard, and the finer in thepaffage from the Sto- mach through the former Gates were drawn all away to the Liver, as the like isever in us and voided otherwaie^. To clofe up all, 1 was at ^ea with one that flept not one wink for thefe three years la ft pair, and Mr hhn Knotsford is a Wit- nefs to this truth, and Captain Jfindfor. 4. And thus we fee thefe ftrange things fall Ii8 The Holy Guide. Lib.?. fall out in proof \ but how, I cannot ftand tofhew. Firft, nature differs them, then ufe and cuftome, another Nature, brings them ins yet we may well believe the like in this matter of meat we have in band ; For as the Bear ( according to the guife of many Beads that lurk in Winter ) fafteth fourty daies, fo Eugenius Iheodi- daaus, the reported Rofie Crucian tells of a Scottijb young man , David Zeamons, that waited on him, that by ufe brought him- felf to fair three daies together, which by ufe might have been three hundred as well, if he had ordered himfelf thereafter by flow and creeping cuilome, as Captain Copland calls it, and by fuch means as I fet down before. 5. So we fee, I fay, great wonders prove plain and eafie troths in the fight of Wifdome : you have read of the won- derful works of Godm the accurate Stru» dure of mans Body, of his Sou!, of his Senfes 9 of Plants, of Minerals, and Rofie Crucian -medicines fhal be that which I will infift up- on , and that by the means aforefaid (where are more then one, if this like them not , they may take another ) it is poflible for all men by kind and cuftome to keep their health for ever : Let us come to the next point, that is,as well to be re- covered if it were loft, and that all difea- Lib. 5. The Holy Guide, 1 19 fes may be cured. This is a point much harder then the firft , even fo befet and ftopt with all kind of lets and incumbran- ces, that a man can fcarce tell which way to fet his foot forwards. Fift appears JEfculapw, Hippocrates, and Flato, the chief among the Grecians, bearing in hand fun- dry difeafes of both kinds ( both come by defcent^and gotten by purchafe)hope- lefs and paft recovery , and giving over the men that owe them , for troublefome to themfelves and to the Commonwealth: Then you may fee Galen, his foft and fine Company with him , that follow thefe as Gerard and Riverius , and Gulpep* per, and thefe with a long train of hedge* Doclors-, and among thefe ftandthe Bill- men, that dawbe their Medicines upon every poll, with Caterers and Coo\s, laden after them with all kind of dainty Drugs., ftand forth and cry, they have thefe many Ages devoured heaps of Books , and took cndlefs pains in fearching out the Nature of {ingle Medicines,and making mixtures of the fame , and yet could hardly cure fome Agues, and other lefTe difeafes : But for the four great difeafes, viz. theGout, Leprofie, Dropfie, Falling Sicknefs, they could never heal them,and have therefore for Oracles fet them down incurable. CHAR no The Holy Guide. ~LiB^T CHAP. XIII. i , 7bat the knowledge and vertue of Medicines arefecretly hid from vulgar underjianding: 2 . How they may be gotten : 3 . And of . what lies couched in the Oil of Bodies : 4. Of the ufe, and how to feech it out by SkjH} the Haven of Medicine. I. T 7\ 7 Hat is left to be done in this V V Matter > what (hall we fet a- gainft the weight of fo many great mens Authorities > Equally put them in the Bat- lance 5 as we have done hitherto, and weigh thfcni with truth and reafon ; But where (hall we find it > fay they j As it is cveiywhere, as Mr. Hobbs faid, drowned in the deep, fo in this matter it is (Matter- ed all about , and largely fpread withal ; for there be three things, and every one full o( undev-Eranches ) belonging to the Rofie Crucian Art and way of Healing \ 1 he firji is kptw ledge of the Vifeafes, the feccndthe remedies againjl them, and the third of the Ap~ pliance of the remedies, ail which (hall be traverfed in this Methodical myiterious Tieatife : butitfhallnotneed I hopemay we mull: take heed how we enter into fo Jon"' and large a race, in fo fliort and nar- row Lib. 5. The Holy Guide. 121 row a compafs of time appointed , efpe- cially being never run before by any man but oirfelf, not one of the wife Egyptians, nor ouxAncejtorsjhe holy Company of Mo fe sand Etnu , whofe fteps we itrive to follow, and ;their fucceflbrs j for when they have once hit the mark they have mot at, and got- . ten the great and general Medicine Caput mortuum A. P. curing with eafe all difeafes, they think it ftrait enough, and an empty and needled labor, as it is indeed, to trouble tbemftlves and their Children with large Rules about innumerabie^«;and Caufes of infinite difeafes, and about o- therfmall particulars in appliance. Nei- ther would I have you fee Sendivogiia, ?&- racelfus, and their heirs upon me, and fay they have taken great and gocdly pains in this field 5 you will then force me to fpeak my thoughts. 2. Though thefe men ( to !et theBill men go, as too young and childim yet ) by great light of Wit wherewith they flowed , and by long proling both with eyes, ears, and hands, in themyfteries of Egypt, faw and performed many of the Kofie Crucian deep fecrets, yea and there got moft of their worldly praife,although I think a number feigned^ yet Paracelfa his new Art and Rules of Healing are not good in my opinion 5 For firft, againft the Z es« 122 ? he Holy Guide . LiB.^, example df the Kofie Crucians, from whom he had received all things , and then in defpight and difgrace of Galen, fcrmif- calliiig his Countrymen 9 asyou have heard 5 but chiefly carried away with a mad and raging defire of Fame and Ho* nor, which Culpefer always defpifed,yec the Stars favoured him, when 1 aflifted to fet up that new, famous and ftrange work oiVhyfick^, now well known and prafti- fed , which faracelfus took in hand , a man unfit to do it , topull down and raze the old Work, and to fet up our new ex- perienced fecret , which he could never do all his life. 3. Then we fee how it is performed ; he fets down fome falfe rules,"fome waft,idle, and fome wanting, and all unconitant, difordered , and unlearned 5 when he doth well fas he doth fometimej he doth no more then was done before him , and brings in the fame thing difguifed with new,odd,crofs, and unheard of names, fuch as may move wonder at thfflrft , but when they be fcanned, Laughter, as Mr. Moor faith of Fbilalethes his likedevices of I his Welch Philofophy. And that I do j not flander them where there is no caufe , I could prove , if this place would admit a Volume. Wherefore let us fol- low the true and right Kofie Crucians, as eafily Li£.$. ihzHrty Guide. 133 ejfily you liny know them by their Acti- ons, if ever )Oii fortune to fee them and be acquainted wkh them; and leave P*- racelfut, and the reft in this ill mattered Light and Apifh, as he makes it 5 and why fhouid we (pend all our care and thought about a fmall matter? you have a good Medicine and remedy againft difeafes, when old Wives in the Countrey , and fome good IVtmen^ amongft other Dr. C»/- prfpers late wife^ and Simple men^ on our fide (I mean Simple in refpeft of theOf- cian fubtilties about nothing ) when thefe people have healed moft, nay , even all difeafes, and with wo'manifh Medi- cines indeedj the German Doctor (let us give him his due praife) hath quite flain the Grecian Thyfic^ and here done much for mankind, by defcribing and difpatch- ing our clofe and fecret enemy 5 which under colour of friendship and fighting againft our enemies hath this long time betrayed us and done us much rmfchief; which th+Rg one of their beft Captainsof their State, FerHelitfrby name, after he had been a while in Egypt , began to fmel at laft , and began to repent himfelfof all his former pains ( which we know were great ) beftowed in that kind of Healing faying it to be but words, and the whole force and weight of this Art to lean up- 2 3 m 124- The Holy Guide. LiB-}. on the knowledge and vertues of Medi- cines , fecretly hid and couched in the midfi and oyl of bodies , to be fetched out and gotten by the skilful means of Alchymip $ even fo of that Art , which is fo much condemned of his fellows before and fince him, have fled and do daily flie from the daily toil and troub'e of their fruit- lefsand barren dead Sea: Now let usihift our Sailes, and flie further too, I hope of wind and tide and all , which we have. 4. But let us mount up to the Main-waft tof of our Knowledge, and fee if we can defcribe the Haven of Rofie Crucian Medi- cines , and fee what marks it hath, and how it differs from other Creeks adjoyn- ing, left at our journeys end we mifs with more fhame and grief, and fuffer fhip- wrack. A medicine is that which kills the face of that which hurts us; and this it cjothmanywayes, and yetalfoto one end (which is the end of doing and working as 1 fa id before^ for his food and fuftenancc. CHAP. LiB. g. The holy Guide 135 3 ' CHAP. XIV. I Of Medicines. 2. Of Witchcraft. %.How to cure thofe that are afflilled thereby, 4. al- though their bodies be pojfejfed with evil- fpirits, 5. that caufe them to vomit up Needles, Thimbles, 6. Vots, 7. Glafles, 8. Hair, 9. and jhredsof cloth, 10. which by the Devil were conveyed into the Body. 11. Jh it Hinds and Tempefts areraiftd by Witches upon meer ceremonies of Medicines* 17. Of Foyfons-y with the examples alfo of other fupernatural effetts of unclean Spirits., 13. Of imagination. 14. How to cure a, Witch, 15, and to takg away her power. 1. A Servant of God and Secretary of j[\ Nature, muft be well advifed of what he writes, efpecially in this age, and of this matter(viz.) of theRofie Crucian FbyficJ^, left he fhould,as I faid before, fail in this deilgn , and fo it may be a fhame that he mould be reproved , by the pre- tenders to thofe wife truths he alone hath opened to publick view 5 then let us come l|j again and fort our fpeeches. A Medicine heals us andkjlls our enemy , ei- I ther bydullingorconfumingit5for when it meets with a contrary pf even ftrengtu Z3 0* s n6 The Holy Guide „ Lib. 3. fas when oyl and poyfon,eH. joyn)*then in ftrength they neither eat up nor de- flroy oneanothenbut both are dulled and vveakned , and make one heavy thing, which Nature cafteth out for an unlike and unkindly dead thing, which they call an eitcrementjor leaving -, but in cafe it be of more ftrength and power then our enemy, then it quite deftroyes, devours, and turns him into his own nature. And this confumer is either like the thing that hurts us, in which fort even as every herb of fundry qualities draws and feeds upon his own juice in a Garden, fo one poy foil doth cure another, and all purging and drawing things do heal us, and all Rojie Crucians bid and Divine properties 60 work by plain reafon ; Or elfe it i$ unlike and contrary to their cuftom \ after which manner, as dry flicks, and tow, and vine- gar,quench wild fire,or other fat fires, be- fore water, whofe fatnefs feeds it,i for the ftrong contrary quality quelling and eat- ing up the weaker * fo doth any cold and dry thing 5 as Bolearminic^ Terra Lemma, &c. cure a rotten Poyfon -, and fo are a great number of cures done ; which only courfe,in a word, the Refie Crucians ufe for Phyfick,and not indeed without good fuc- cefs; we heard even now of two hinde- frances of healing , which our common Phyficians LlB.%. The Holy Guide. 1 27 Phyficians did take unawares, and Fara- celfuf pretends to have found out before pie, gave any hint to the World of our f A' experienced inventions , of Gold diffohed and made Rotable , being incorporated with its proper Veile , which we now ufe by the name of Aurum ptabile 5 but Paracelfus ftrayeth much in the making of it, and knows it not no more then Thomas Har- rington Dottor Culpeppers Man , whether in their poyfons, on the other fide,, when they think all Cures thereby perform- ed. 2. Now when the confuming Medicines have done their duties, Nature expels them for poyfon and unlike ftrange things, according to the Holy Guide, as well as the Grecian. Rules , becaufe all their Medicines were not approved by the Fra- ternity, and were by their confeflion fuch : But if they had either thought of the dul- ling Nouriflier, which as I told you, takes the nature of the leaving or excrement, or had known the Rofie Crucian whol- fome Medicine , they would have made; another reckoning : But let them go, and let us fee out in time towards the Haven of Health. If the Art of Healing be nothing ■ but deftroying hurtful things, And their ftronger enemies (but equality will fotne- times ferve the turn ) or likes together; Z ± and J a8 The Holy Guide. LiB.^. and the world beTfull of botli thefe kinds of Creatures, following the nature of their Paientsof four beginnings , which are, as we fee 3 fome like, and fomc contra- ry one to another. 3. Then fure the Rofie Crucian Art of Healing \s not fas fome may fay) impofll- b!e j truly it wanteth nothing but a man well skilled in the Nature of things , A Servant of God 3 and Secretary of Nature by name-, for(lthinkJ I need not put in a Thy- fician^o know what other part the Caufes of the difeafes, which muft be known and matched, becaufe as Sir (hrijlopher Hey don the Seraphic ally illuminated Rofie Crucians^ and learned 4ftrologex well faith, He that knoweth the changes' and chances of things in the great World , may foon find them in the Little. But our nought- healing Bill-men, that daube Medicines upon every wall andr poft, and fome Leaches will ftep in audit fay , Difeafes are in fome fo great, and in all Co many , and mans wit is fo weak andr (hallow, and the Medicines fo hid andj; drowned in the deep of Nature, that it is] not poflibleto find them all V or if the were found, to apply them with fuch di cretion, as Nature might abide thofe poy- foned Fraies and Battels within her. And again, admit all this untrue, yet therebe fome I L> B. ?. The Holy Guide. l\9 fome difeafes fent from Witchcraft and Sorcery^ and other means which have their caufe, and To their cure. I have read of feme that have vomited lip pieces of cloath with Pins {luck in them , Nails, Needles, and fuch like ftuffe * and this is iugefied into the Stomach by the prefti- gious Heights of Witches : Others I have feen vomit up Hair 3 Glafs 3 Tron,and pieces of Wood with Pins fhick in it ; anuthers Corps wasdirTec"ted 3 and ripping up the Ven- tricle , there they found the caufe of the difeafe , which was around piece of JFood, four Knives^ fome even and Jharp, ethers were indented likg a Saw, Others do Miracles by carting Flint ftones behind their Backj to- \yards the IVejl , or itriking a River with Broom , or flinging of Sand inthe Air y the ftirring of Vrine in a hole in the ground , or boyling of Hogs Briflles in a. pot 5 fome by rrhifpering fome words inthe Ear of anHorfe, or wild Stag^could direli him a jQurney^accord- ing to their own defire. But what are thefe things available > To gather Clouds, and to cover the Air with darknefs , and then to make the ground fmoak withpjealsof Hail and Rain , and make the Air terrible with frequent Lightning and ratling claps of Thunder: But this is from trie power of the Devilfasfome fancy) which lie hath in his Kingdom of the Air. 4. For 1 30 The Holj Guide. L I B. 3* 4.. For the remedy of thefe mifchiefs, I navefeena man wasprefent, whenfome have vomited up tfeedles, IhimbUs^ Shredi of Chxh^ pieces of Pots, Glafs,Hair ; another would f uffer himfelf for money to be run through with a Sword, when 1 was not there 5 but it appeared to mea Fable. I have feena Rofie Crucian Vhjfitian cure thefe affli&ed People. But if you will fay, there is a touchftone whereby we may difcern the truth of Metals, but that there is nothing whereby we may difcover ch e truth of Miracles recorded every where in Hiftory. But I anfwer there is, and that is this : «$.Firft,if what is recorded, was avouched by fuch perfons who had no end nor inte- reftin avouching fuch things. 6v Secondly, If there were many eye- witneffes of the fame matter. 7:' Thirdly and Jaftly , If thefe things which are fo ftrange and miraculous, leave any fenfible effects behind theni; though I will not acknowledge that all thofe Sto- ries are falfe that want thefe conditions, yet I dare affirm, that it is meer humour and fullennefs in a man to rejeft the Truth of thofe that hear them; for it is to believe nothing but what he feeth him- felf, from whence it will follow, that he is eo read nothing of Hiftbryj for there is neither Lib. 3. 7be Holy Guide. 121 neither Plea Cure nor any ufefulnefs, if ic deferfeno belief. S. Another Remedy for thefe Superna- tural dii'eafes is , Let one watch the party fvfpefiedywhcTi they go home to their houle and prefently afcer, before any body go into the hcufe after him cr her, let one pull a handful of the Thatch , or a Tile that is over the Door, and if it be a Tile, make a good Fire , and heat it red hoc therein 3 fetting a Trivet over it; then take the parties water, if it be a Man, Wo- man, or Child, and pour it upon the red hot Tile, upon one iide firft, and then on the other , and again put the Tile into the Fire,and make" k extremely hot, turn- ing it ever and anon , and let no body come into the houfe in the mean time 9. If they beCattel that are bewitched, rake fome of the hair of every one of them, and mix the hair in fair water, or wetit well,and then lay it under the Tile, the Trevet ftanding over the Tile,make a lufty fire, turn your Tile oft upon the hair , and ftir up the hair ever and anon ; after you have done this by the fpace of a quarter of an hour^ let the fire alone, and when the aflies are cold, bury them in the ground towards that quarter of Heaven where the fufpefted Wicch lives. 10. If 532 The Holy Guide. Li B.^. io. If the Witch live where there is no Tile,but Thatch, then take a great hand- ful thereof,and wet it in the parties water, or elfe in common water mixed with fome fait, then lay it in the fire, Co that it may moulterandfmotherby degrees,;and in a long time,fetting a Trivet over it. Or elfe take two new Horie-fhooes, heat them red hot,and nail one of them on the Threfhold of theDoor, but quench the other in the Urine of the party fo bewitched, then let the Urine over the fire,and put the Horfe- ihooe in it , fetting a Trivet over the Pip- kin or Pan wherein the Urine is; make che Urine boyl with a little Salt upon it, and the Horfe nails,until it isalmoft con- ifumed,x>i£. the Urine ; what is not boyled fully away pour into the fire : Keep your Horfe-lhooe and Nails in a clean cloth or paper,and dolikewife three feveral times $ the operation will be far more efFe&ual if you do thefe things at the very change or full Moon , or at the very hojrir of the firft or fecond Quarter. If they be Cattel , you muft mix the hair of their Tails with the Thatch 5 and moiften them being well bound together, and fo let them be a long time in the fire £pn fuming. ji.YguIiave heard theCaufeoffome of thefe difeafes^and have heard the Cure; but LiB-3- The Holy Guide. 133 but thefe are without the compafs of Na» ture, and To let them pafs with our fickle Handing, which is daily and hourly fo be- fet withdeftinies, that a man can warrant nothing. 12. Truly deftinies are fo deep and bottomlefs (to return ftraight Homer»\\kc upon them , and therefore it were beft in- deed to let them go , and the applying of the Medicines with themj the rather be- caufe the other CI mean the formerj is fo flight a matter to a difcreet Phyiician, fuch a one as is pointed out by their old and famous Leader Hippocrates , who both in thiSj and all other duties of his Art, made fuch fpeed, and fo farpafled all his fellows ( as none fince, which is a good time,could ever overtake himjno noryec come (o neer as to keep the fight of him whom they had in chafe and followed. 13. Then for thofe fupernatural caufes t which 1 (hall not (land here to fearch (for fo they are called) if they flow from un- clean and wicked Spirits (as fome think) they are not the ftuffe of the things that hurt us, though fometimes they dwell in and poflefs the body, but windy matters, much like unto thofe fierce and fudden changes of the Weather* proceeding from the Influences of the Planets and fixed Stars, and working the like effe&s in mens bodies. *3|, Jhe Holy Guide. L1E.3. bodies, fothat iich the neareft caufe is na- tural, let the reft be whatthey will > and the Cure be done by natural mean^as we ■ fee by experience amongft us : And there- fore E. A. that pretends this,and puts the fault in the faith of thewicked,which is a thing as far above Nature, yet holds its Cure with a natural Medicine, which we call a Quinteffence. 14. Although T am not willing, that fometimes this (icknefs isfuch, as he bids us fometimes withftand it with another as ftronga belief fct againftit, but form/ part , I cannot reach it with my conceit fiet deeper heads then mine, or the Vke- Chancellor of Oxford, Doctor Owen, think UponitJ how thefe beliefs and imagina- tions , and other parts and powers of the foul or mind of man , can fo flye out of their own kingdome, and reign over a for- reign body, when we know the foul and mind is fo faft bound in the body in durance, and fo like to be, until it be the great pleafure of the Omnipotent and the Omniscient God,the chief good, who hath committed them, to let them loofe at once,and fet them ftill ac liberty ; and this may be difputed with grace and knowledge on my part 5 let this man therefore buzze againft my knowledge, which he would have to be more then Grace 9 I appeal to the natural facuttietof any LiB.^. The Holy Guide. 135 any free Judge , whether there be not as much Grace in me as there ii honefty in him^ that was Oliver Cromwels Creature , and appointed to examine and judge me he did notun- derftand > All men cenfure as they like of Stones; fo let them pafle amongft old wives tales for me ; we will feverely follow our task. That if the effect do not ceafe which the object hath wrought upon the Brain , fo foon as ever by turning afidebf the Organs the object ceafeth to works's, though the fence be pad 5 as the ftrokeof a ftone, a blaft of wind, puts (landing wa • terinto motion, and it doth not prefently give over moving as foon as the wind cear feth,or the Stone fctleth : fo the Image or Conception remaineth,but more obfeure, while we are awake , becaufe fome object or other continually plyeth and follici- tethoureys and ears,keepeth the mind in a ftronger motion , whereby the,weaker doth not eafily appear. And this obfeure conception is that we call Tbantafie^ or Imagination being (to define \t) conception remaining , and by little and little decaying from and after the all ef fenfe, &c. If fome of thefe difeafes fpring, as Doctor Culpeper and fome others hold, and with good rea- fon, from neither of both thefe two roots namad, but from a foul and venomous breath/ \%6 The Holy Guide. Life*;*, breath,f£nt forth from a poyfoned temper of the Witches body , through the windi- nefs of hateful eyes: For Thought fafhi- oneth the Blood and Spirits aim oft a this pleafure*, then all the caufes being ordi- nary , and agreeing to the courfeof Na- ture, they may be cured and put to flight by the fame courfe and means : which opinion, if you pleafe to bear with my tarrying, it is worth the handling, taketh hold upon this reafon , becaufe (as Rofie Crucians do wit nefs ) fome beafts of ranker venome, do witch and hurt after the fame manner ; as an old Toad by ftedfaft view, not only prevails, but benums a Weafell, but kills a young Child. And by the fame means the Eever hunts the little Fifh,and takes his prey ; But moft fiercely and mif- chievoufly of all Creatures in the world, the two Monfters in kind , the Cockatrice and Jlpoblefas : again,for that the eye of a menftruous woman (as all report) doth fpot the glafs which it beholdeth : And moreover Eugeniuf Jkeodidadtu, in the Wife mam Crown, telleth of many folk that through a poyfoned prerogative , which a monftrous Mark of a double-fighted eye gave unto them , were able to be- witch to death all thofe upon whom that Eye was angerly and fui ely fee and faft- nedj L1B.3. TheHoly Guide. 137 ned 5 but chiefly becaufe we fee them that ufe this wicked Trade, to be by kind of a muddy and earth-like complexion *md nature , brought by age , as they be 'moft commonly, long life* and groflfe diet, to the pitch of Melancholy, that is, to a cold and moil dry nature in the World. 1$. For certain proof whereof, bring one of them out of that beaft-like life* brought unto merry company , and fed full with dainty Diet , and within twen- ty dayes, as hath by a Rofie Crucian been tried a truth , the whole ftate and nature of her body will be fo changed , as it (hall not fuffer her to bewitch and hurt again $ as you may read in my Familiar Spirit or Guardian Genius^ and in my Book calif d The Imjle of Wifdont. 3& A a CHAP, 1^8 the Holy Guide. Lib. 3 CHAP. XV. 1/3. The Natural effefis of Medicine: ^.The\ force and power of minerals in difeafesj 4. With examples alfo that every difeafel breeder hath the cure or remedy in it. 5.EX-I amplesthat poyfon prepared cures poyfonedi people : 6- Kofie Crucian Medicines, j.Thel venue and power of the Planets and heavcnX ly Stars poured through the influence on the moon upon the Lower Creatures. 8. On Hot Stomachs ; 9. (9/ the Etherial firjil moiiiure of man : 10. Examples alfo o]\ [, Rofie Crucian Natural and fupernaturaa cures. 11.. Of the under jianding of thefil experienced truths by the wit of man, j. T Et us conic to the next and chiefefl| .point j And there we mull not fay] for fhame, that thefe helps and reme dies lye hid in nature, too far for the wit of man to find, uniefs we will accufe out own floth and dulnefs : For nature hath brought them forth and laid them open afwefasthe Poy fops and hurtful things, or elfeme were verycrofs and ill willing to him for whofe fake it feems /lie doth all % , Nay further her good will is fuclv as (he bath not on'y laid them open, bin given Li B. 3 . The Holy Guide. 1 3 9 given us wayes to come by them , and meanes of fpeech, hands and wit alfo, far above all other living creatures. And yet me hath not left us fo$ but left by chance we might go wide and mifs them, to (hew her motherly love aud affection towards us, fhe hath guided many witlefs BeaftS) even by common fenfe, unto their Fpeedy helps and remedies in their di- feafes : That we by the plainnefs and fliame of the example might be taught and moved to feek out the myfterious truths of nature in Celeftial bodies, as well as beafts that feek and find us Medicines helpful in the like difeafes* for our Ter- teftial Tabernacfe. As to name a few not unworthy meaning 5 fhe maketh the bcaft Hippotamus in time of his fulnefs and fat- nefs to go to a reed, and by rubbing a vein to lethimfelf blood, and to ftop it I again by laying mud upon it 5 A Tick dog ' to feek an- Herb and purge himfelf * and the bear to do the fame after his long faft in Winter > fhe leads the Panther, when heispoyfoned, to her foul and namelcfs leaving 5 and the Tortcyfe, after he hath [eat a Viper, to Summer Savery : And [theHedg-hog is fo good a natural Aftro- nomer, that he fortifies his hole againft foul weather; the Hog will gather Mofs i and ftraw to cover himfelf a. little before A a 2 it 140 The Holy Guide. LiB-3 . it rains j The dog knoMS the influence of Mars when he doth fleep by the fire, and! will not go out adores when he is in any evil pofition : and many fuch like exam, pies hath nature laid before us for our inftru&ion h by which at laft wife Plato^ Philo, ApoUonius, Pythagoras, and painful men of Greece, as they themfelves reportj be they Elias or Elijha from whom the orderof the Rofie Crofs came, ( as form fay)orelfeas others will have it, from Mofes,or Ezekjel, or whofoever, and byi; laying reafon and further proof together, firft made the Art and rules of Healing* to know whence difeafes came, and how to recover them. And then feeking all i about for remedies to ferve each turntij by little and little they matched the mo{W part of the letter rank with fingle Medijl cines, and the greater ones they doubled! and coupled many together, infomuch ail; at laft,which was in Hippocrates time, thejll were able to heal all ( laving four, ) {of thj j greateft & deepeft difeafes, the Gout, thM "Drop fie, xh& Leprofy the F ailing fickjtefs^vihlcM are now healed by the Rofie Crucians onelyT But this race is below theSeraphically illumi\ nated fraternity: now not a Pbyfician that ii lined with Plufh in England, Spain, Get many, or France , but hoi ds that Long-lij Health, Youth , not attainable , th< there LiB. 3. TheHoly Guide 141 therefore with one confent, amongft the other four, call them impoilible. 3. But to come to the point ; what wrong this was both to skill and nature, they do eafily fee and laugh at, which know that in this labour, they did not only overfee and skip the Minerals, the ftouteft helps in the whole ftore-houfe of Nature ( although they could dig them out well enough to other and worfer ufes ) but alfo, which is in all, did let the Rofie Crucian skill of preparing Medi- cines, whereby weak thiags are made al- mighty, quite efcape them. 4. Wherefore to make up the Rofie Cru- cian Art of healings and to make it able ( as they fay ) to help and cure all difea- fes came in, or rather went before, into mans body 5 The Egyptians in great fa- vour too with nature both for their foil and bringing up, fo notably commen- ded above all nation^ ( having for ex- ample, to move and teach them even the great wight of the world as Sir Ma Hey* don faith ) for wits to devife, and bodies i to put in praftice. 5; Whereby in fhort time they unfol- ded the knot why the Minerals were of jgreateft force and power againft difeafes; ! and foon after, which was a divine light* 'and in«fight, theyperceived the huge la- Aa 3 bour 14* ike Holy Guide. LlB,?. ■« ■»'' — -^— — — «« boiir of feeking fuch a huge fort of Angles I and mixtures to be vain and empty, and pitiful among vyifemen. 6. Becaufe firft, there is nothing hurt* i ful and a breeder of difeafe, but it hath I the heal and remedy for the fame about ! him : For the wings and feet of Cantharides y I the Fruit of the Root Bezar, the Afhes of Scorpions, Toads , and Vipers , andh divers other ftronger poyfons, both by . nature and skill dreft and prepared, doi cure and heal their own and all other ^ Poyfons j nay as all ftronger likes dojfc- cuie thejr likes throughout the wholel , world of difeafes, even fo when a many hath found out a thing that hurts him,j i he may by eafie skill mingle and break the i temper of the fame further-, that is, makejJ it able to eat up and confume it felf as j eallly, without any further doubt, toil j and labour; But especially becaufe there! j is no one thing in the world, take what \ you will, that hath not the vertucsof the! J Ttanets arefted and fattened upon it, audi I alfo of the qualities thereof within it ftlfjl that is not as good as all, and may fervejli inftead of all, and that is not able to cure I all difeafes ; which thing weighed, and! with difcourfe of wit and reafon fully 1 reached, they went to practice, and byfji she like (harpnefs of wit, they found our J: the I L i B.5. The Holy Guide. 1 4 2 the kindly and ready way to drefs and make fie thefe three kinds of Medicines a- forefaid, which contain all the Art of healing 5 all the reft are but waft words and grievous toyl, to tire a world of wits about a bootlefs matter , as faith Dei Cartes. But efpecially they refled in the laft, which is enough alone, and yet not without great forecaft, to chufe one of the beft, and that the very beft of all, for their eafe in dreflmg. Though Qr.Cufye- per of late was not content with this, but ran through the reft, afwell to fpight his enemies, the Colledge of PbyfiGians, as to make himfelf famous in laverm and Ale- heufes, as Faracelfus in his time did : whofe ftepsheftrove to follow againft the rule ofRofie Crucian wifdom and vert ae , and the example of his anceftors. 7. But hath every thing all the vertues and influences taken from the Flanets and Stars, by the Mocn, to the earth > Thatis, all the curing and healing power of all the things in the world . we talk of high things, and huddle up too many great matters together. It were good for us to work them o ut diftin&ly h when this Aurum Potabile we fpeak of, and ftrong j tempered medicines, flip into th6 fto-i mach, it ftaies no long digeftion, being already digefted, nor looks for any ordi- nary paflages to be opened unto it, but asfoon asitisraifed out of fleep*by his fellow*, the natural heat, by and by he flyesout, and skours about, as fa ft as she VQlfhine after his prey* or as nature her Lib.?. The Holy Guide. u5 her felf, whom Mr.lko.Heydon, as I cake it, faith to pierce bounds , and all to the purpofe, that is te feek his like food, and fuftenance, whereby to preferve his ftate and being, which is the purpofe of all things in the world, as was faid above. 9. Now there is nothing fo like and neeraperfeft temperature in the world, as the Etherial firjt woifture in man ; but what this is, you may read in my book entituled Ventus Magnus* 10. Thisis beftand mod in the hearty the root of life, then thither it hyeth and preyeth upon that part fir ft, and that is the caufe why it prefently reftoreth a man half dead, and as it were, pulls him out of the throat of death ; then it runs to the reft all about , increafmg by that meanes the natural heat, and firft moi- fture of every part of the body 5 when this is done, he turns upon the parts themfelves, & by encountring with them in the fame fort, according to his might, upon them,and brings them a certain way towards his own nature, even fo far as we will byourufagefuffer > for if we cake it with meafure and difcretion 9 it will bring our body to a middle mean and ftate, between his own exatt tempera- ture, and the diftemper of difeafes, even a better ftate then ever it had before 5 if we *46 the Holy Guide. L I B- 3 we ufe it out of meafure, it takes us up too high, and too near his own nature, and makes us unmeet for the deeds of the duties of an earthly life. But in the mean while in the midft of this work, we muft know that by his exceeding heat and fubtlenefs which is gotten by Rofie Crucian skill, and which makes up the ftrength above all things, it divides and Scatters, likefmqke before the wind, all diftempered and hurtful things, and if they cannot be reconciled and turned to goodnefs , nature throwes them out as dead and unfruitful leavings. 1 1 . But how do we talk Jo much of ex- it ft and perf eft temper, when by the verdift ofaIlthe^«e/r in thefe cafes there is no fuch thing round in nature, but in heaven only.? neither heard you me fay that it floated aloft, to was fun\to thebottom of all nature ; notwithstanding by a true and Holy Rofie Crucian to be founded and tveighed up. For as heaven was once a grofsand diftempered lump ( as I told you in my book of the nature and dignity of Angels ) by the divine art of God that or- dered all things ( as you have read in the Introductory part of this book, ) refined and fund red away round to the place and nature where it now frandeth ; even fo one of our grofs bodies here below, being LlB.3- ThetHoly Guide. 147 apiece of the fame lump alfo, and all one with that which Heaven once was, may by the like art and cunning be refined and parted from all his diftempered drofs and foul droffinefs, and brought into a Heavenly nature of the beft and goodlieft thing in Heaven: And yet you rnuft not take me as though I would have themindand wit of man, which is but a fpark of the divine gr^t mind, flfpake in my book called Ventm Ingens ) to be able to reach the excellency of his work, and to make fo great perfection ; i*fhe do but ftiadow it, and make a Coun- terfeit, that is, if he reach not 10 far as to make all things, but to mend a few by this his Heaven, all is well, it is as much as I can look for at the hand of any man that is not a JLofie Crucian. Now is the time to reft a little, and pray for the good ufe and practice of thofe that (hall read our Harmony of the World, CHAP. I48 The Holy Guide. L 1 B. 3. CHAP. XVI. 1 . Of the Rofie Crucian Sun, 2 . or spiritual Oyl. 3 . Of the Divine Works of God not yet obferved. 4. How to makg Mther . 5 . Examples of Medicines Rofie Crucian and Grecian. 6- OfPoyfon. j.Ofthefu- pernatural Miracfes of the Rofie Crucians, 8. with obedience toReafon. p # Another Medicine of fupernatural efefi. 10 .Of the power and fecret skill of Nature, 11, How to difiolve Minerals. 12. And how to pre- pare them for Mens Bodies. 1. TTYUgenw IheodidaUus hath (hewed : JE, you this Heaven , nay this Sun of ours 3 which is nought elfe, as I told you in one of my books of Aftrology, Hhelewi- pie of W'ifdome> but an 0)1 fuU of heavenly SpiritSyznd yet in quality of his body ;uft, even and natural, fine and piercing, clofe and lading , able as weil to rule this little World , as Mr. Thomas Heydon faith , the great Sun is able to govern the great World. 2. But what is he that can fee this Di- vine Art and Way 3 whereby God made his great LiB-3. The Holy Guide. 149 great and mighty work , viz. y&n3 as I ftiewed in my Book, intituled, Mofes fpeech to Go^upon the fecond chapter of Genefut or if he (aw it, learn and match it by imi- tation > 1 anfwer. None but Rofie Crucians towhomIamafriend,and they God hath enligh tned and unfealed their eyes , they have found the way lying open in all pla- ces , and in all Natural! changes , they fee them pafleand travt),Ifay ftill,the courfe that Mr. Thomas Heydon calls foft and wit- ty, that is, kindly reparation : and if he be not fwift and rain as many, fuch as Iho- mas Street^ but will have fober patience,his own skill and labour will be but little if he pleafe 5 for Nature her felf very kindly will in her due time perform all,and even all that heavenly workmanmip be eafily performed j and yet I mean not fo, but that Art muft accompany and attend up- on Nature (though with no great pains and skill ) both forward and backward in this Journey (Dc&or French knows my meaning, fo^Joth Do&or Owen y if his an- gry Cenfure will fuffer his Natural judge- ment)until he come to his wiftied reft,and to the top of all perfection. 3 . If you perceive not 5 confider the way whereby we made our Mther in our Book abovenaraed 9 and matched our own fir ft rnoi- j 50 1 he Holy Guide. LlB. 3. moifture,a thing JEtherialJ. fay,and almoft Temperate-, mark what I fay, there is a further end in the matter ', hold on the lame means , whereby you came fo far through The Wife mans Crown > and are gone fo far in the Harmony of the World, which is that I fpake of, and you may reach it. 4. Then you fee the Way to ciire all difeafes by the third way of Egyptian healing, which they do, arid we may well call it the Egyptians Heaven, and yet it is a way far beneath the Rofie Crucian Art of Healing, as we (hall (hew hereafter. 5. But if they will not yield to reafon, but mutter ftiil Thomas SfwMike, that thefe Heavenly Medicines of curs are ve- ry high for the reach of mens filly wits, here (bowed below upon the ground for other leffer and bafer ufes , and that no' man iince the firft man, or if I will fay Mofes was the firft that firft found otit thefe inventions 3 as they call them,after Adam ; and that none but the Succ#fcrs of Mofs have beeivever yet known to have found and wrought the fame $ 1 will notftand to beat Reafon into fn ch giddy-braind menj but go to the other two wayes of healing, which the Eg pt? arts found out and ufed, and called thVfirtt Minen.lMedicines 3 and thefe L i B. 3 . The Holy Guide. 1 5 1 thefe Mofes taught the Children of Ifrael in the valley of Mount Sinai , when hetoo\ the Golden Calf which he had made, and calcined it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and in- corporated it with a Solar V eagle , and made the children of Ifrael drink^ Aurum Pota- bile. 6. And the next myfteries andfecrets, as may appear by Riverius his fpeaking of JLofie Crucian Secrets ,we may fitly call this fecondkind, becaufe that is too large a Name ^if it be lawful for us as well as for all other Learned men, where a fit word wants to make a newj wemaydowell, I fay, to call it a Cure it felf, becaufe it is by that way of healing, whereby every felf- fame thing further broken may cujjAJjg: felf y and this inward and hidden thmg, as they fay, the outward and apparent by the courfe cf kind, whereby the ftronger like cats up in trial and confumes the weaker. 7. If this leave be once granted,wewiil borrow a Ijdjfcmore for the other two likewife, became their names are not per- tinent to our purpofe , and call that Hea- ven 3. Cure all, for foit doth, and the next a Cure the 6r^r,becaufe the Order of the Ro- fie Crucians is alwayes to match the greater wind more fiubborn fort of difeafes with the i$a The Holy Guide. L1B.3, the ftoutand mighty Minerals, and the reft with thofe hidden cure-thenifefoes,or at lead in the lower rank of lighter difeafes, with their likes , only raw, as theCrtCians ufe them, without any curious dreiling. 8. Let us draw nearer a concluhon of the matter 5 becaufe Grecians themfelves are able , and our Englijb Phyficians that learn of them, to cure the lighter fort of difea- fes, and to heal all but the four aforefaid, we will leave the reft for them , and fo lee this fecond kind of healing go, called our bidden cure themfelves^nd bend all our bat- teries againft thefe four, which they call incurable , and fee how by force of our Mineral Medicines they may be cured : Wft^ce the poyfoned fpirits and breaths of vCTfomous things, with what force they work upon our bodies, things in Nature fet againft them , and how they confume them 5 If you do not fee by imagination, reafon with your felves; if not, remember thofe above named, that killed with their right ; Hear one or two flttfre that work the fame by touch as violently. The Hare* fijk 3 & moft cold and dry Creaturef to omit that (he maketh a mans head ake by fight) if you touch her aloof only with a ftafle, that her venomous breath may go ftreight and round unto you , you die prefently. The Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 153 The root Baazam'm Palejlme, zzVythagorai prices, kills the man thac handleth ity and therefore they ufed to make a Dog pull it up, who thereby died immediately. To come into the body 5 that cojUy poyfon thac is in Nubia , and one grain kills a man out of hand,yec flay but a quarter of an hours working, and that one grain divided will overcome ten men 5 1 hope you doubt not but thefe mighty poyfons, if they were like in Nature to the four great Difeafes, and by little and little to be born byNa- cure, and fet upon chem, would be able ealily, by their great ftrengch, to devour & confume them ; orelfe Cure fuch heaps of poyfonas the Phyficians give us would not dwell fo long within us , but would put ouc life in a moment. Now what arc thefe poyfdned Vapours, but moft cold and dry bodies , wrougbc and broken up by natural mingling , unio greac finenefs and fubtilenefs , by this peircing (wifely all about, andby thefe contrary qualities overcoming > Then let us take the ftouteft Minerals, fuch as are called Middle Minerals by Rofie Crucians, or hard Juices (to leave :he Metals for a becrer purpofe ) be they poyfons,as G. Agricola (zith^but whacthey 3e I care not ■> and after we have by meer working cleanfed chem,and ftripped them B b of 15^ The Holy Guide. Lib. 3 of their clogs and hinderances , broken and raifed them to a fine fubftance , then match them with their hkes, the hurtful things in our bodies, (hall they not let all the reft alone, and ftraightway cleave to their fellows, as well as a purging Medi- cine,and fo devour and draw them out by little and little? If there be no likes, I grant they will as well as that, fall upon their enemies,or good juices, and feed up- on them. 9; 1 hen what do you doubt , is not a Mineral body far better? And therefore if it be raifed to as great a finenefs,much ftronger in working then the gentleand loofe temper of a Wight or Plant : where- fore thefe our Mineral Medicines, and fome other forementioned Medicines, and Cure the greats as we call them,fhall in any reafon work more violently upon their likes, then the natural poyfonsof Wights and Plants do upon their contraries 3 both becaufe the like doth more eaiily yield then the contrary,and forJthat the lighter here is theftronger. 10. .But if you cannot fee thefe things by the light of the mind, open your eyes, and caft them a little into the School of Akhimy^ into the lefTer and lower School, I I mean of Germans , and you (hall fee the Schol- — « — 9 Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 155 ^ Schollars, efpecially the Matters, by Grip- ping the Minerals , and lifting up their properties, but a few degrees , to work wonders j as to name three ; or four , by quenching the Loadftone in the oyl of Iron, his proper food, they make him ten times ftronger,able to pull a nail out of a poft , &c. And by this natural pattern they make Artificial drawers , not for Iron only, but for all other things, yea, and fome fo mighty 3 as they will lift up an Oxe from the ground, and rent the Arm of a Tree from the Body , as Mr. Comer doth witnefs , who reporteth again, that hefaw a Fiefh-drawer that pulled up one hundred weight of Fle(h ? and a Mans Eye out of his Head,and his Lights up into his Throat, and choafyd him. They make Binders alfo to glew two pieces of Iron toge- ther, as faft as the Smith can joyn them. To be fhort , they make Eaters alfo , that will confume Ir on, ftones, or any hard thing, to nought in a moment : They diflblve Gold into an Oyle 5 they fix Mercury with the fmoak^ of Brimftone, and make many rare devifes of it : And all thefe wonders, and many more, they do by certain rea- fonj 1 could tell you if I couldftand fi- fe ut it. In the mean time coniider, if ithefe or any ether fitch like Minerals were B b 2 raifed 1^6 1 he Holy Guide. LiB-3 raifed higher , and led to the top of their finenefs and fubtlenefs, and matched with their like Cbmpanions^or with their Con- traries,if you will, thofe great Difeafes in i our Bodies , what ftirrs they would make among them, how eafily they would hew j them, pierce, divide, wafte, and confume j them? But youmuft alwayeshave afpe-i cial regard, that the Medicines be not liker our natures, then the nature of the thing! that hurts us, for then they would firftj fall upon us, and let the Difeafes alone 1 which heed is eafily taken in Minerals, things very far off our nature , faith Des\ Cartes. And with thefe Experiences of thej wonderful vertue of the oyl and water of Tobacco, Wife men I have known doj Miracles with it, but the fmoak of it is the! abhorredft thing in the world. ii. What is to be faid more in thefe matters > I think nothing, unlefs through; the countenance of an idle opinion that reigns among them , they dare flye to the! laft, and of all other the moft (lender fhel« ter, and deny our ability to break, tame and handle as we lift, fuch ftout and ftub-; born bodies : (what) becaufe you know not how to do it, will you faftiion all men by your mould 1 Wife men would firft look L i B *i - The holy Guide 1 5 7 look into the power and ftrength of skill a nd nature 3 and fee what they can do, and aieafure it thereby, and not by their own. weaknefs ; there fhall you underftand, that there is nothing in nature fo ftrong and ftubborn, but it hath its match at Ieaft, if not his over-match in Nature, fuch is the nature of Mans body, of his Souls , of fignatures of Plants, of Met- tals, and Minerals, and other things al- fo. 12. But admit fomewhat weaker, as Herbs and Plants, &c. yet this , if he gee the help of a Wife mans Art unto him, (hall quickly wax great, and mend in ftrength, and beableeafily to overcome that other : Mark how the dregs of Vine- gar, a thing fprung out from a weak be- ginning, and it felf as weak as water, is able, if it be but once diftilled, to make ftouter things then Minerals , even Metals themfelves, all but Silver and Gold, to yield and melt down to4iis own waterifh nature,nay which is more,then Mill-dew of Heaven, wrought firft by the £tt, thatcun- i ning Beaft,and then twice or thrice by the i Diftillers diftilled will do the fame , you, ■ may judge with your felf, whatnot only i thefe,but other fiercer and (harper things, as Salts, &c. more like to do upon Mine* B b 3 rals; 158 'the Holy Guide. L1B.3. ralsj and by the way confider, if fuch mild things as Wine and Honey, fo mean- ly prepared, are able to fubdue in that fort the moil ftiffe and tough things in the World, fo Minerals cheaper then Aurum fotabile, in their higheft degree of dignity would cure the ftouteft Difeafe (being prepared fitly - ) that can grow in our bo- dies. Now let us fit and take our reft a little , and then we will lead you the way to the golden treafuresof Nature, and fafe, eafie and effectual Medicines. CHAP, L i B . 5 . The Holy Guide. 1 s 9 CHAP. XVII. How the Rode Crucians mak$ aChirur- geons Inftrument, 2. that it Jhall pierce through any part of the whole body, without fenfe or feeling , and found the depth of a Wound, 3. The difference of Common Tbyfitians,raw, blunt, and herb) Medicines, and Roiie Crucians : 4. What a Pby~ fician ought to be. 5. what they ought to learn, 6. and what they ought to Pra* ft*. 1. TyUt I wear away time in vain, to IJ fpeakfo much about this matter; and yet fith all are not of like Capacity, I will add one yet familiar examples when a Chirurgeon goeth about to fearch a Wound that is deep, if he thruft at it with a Butchers prick he would move Laughter, let him take a Thorn , and it will pierce fomewhat prettily ; but to do itthroughly , and at hispleafure he will ufe (though to the great grief of his Pa- tient ) a fine and long Inftrument of metal. But a right Chhurgion (the B b ^ common 1 6o The Holy Guide. L I B. 3 • I common ones are but Butchers ) fuch a one as is aVbyficiaKy and Aftrologer , nay a; liofie Crucian Mo, would touch his Inftru-1 merit with a Loaftone, that is commonly] found , to make it pierce throughout thel body without all tenCe or feeling : Even! €0 good FhyficiaWy fuch as thefe, are hardpi to be found in this Government , wherei none of thefecan live without great en-r vie. If one of thefe~Ko/i> Crucians be to, encounter with our greateft enemies a thefe four we fpeak of 5 he would 'not, 1 hope, if he were a true Rofie Crucian, be foil mad as to thruft attheniwith the raw and 1 blunt Herby Medicines , fuch as Dottor Scarborough prefcribes, no nor although they be fharpened by Mr. Jacob Hejdon, by! plain diftillations: neither would he, I think,for pitty fting the poor Patient with 1 Martyrdome of rude and rank Minerals, and unlefs they were made into a fine, clean, natural, and temperate quality,! which would work mightily, anddeftroy either of thefe four great Difeafes , Lepro- fie, Gout^Vropfie, and F 'ailing- feckpefs: buc fecdy comfort, or at leaft not offend and hurt his Patient ; they labour in vain that pra&ife otherwise. Thefe are the Medi- cines which 1 only ufe, and which a good and wife Phyfician ought only to feek and follow^ Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 16* follow,and if lie cannoc find it,let him life the Cure themselves. Bur fucha thing as this,lfay , brought to this equality and finenefs of frame and temper, (were it at the firft, Wizht-> Plant, or Mineral) was it which our father and founder Mofes (the chief of the Rofie Crofs) faid, is like to Heaven, and the ftrength of all ftrengths, piercing and fubdiiing all things. 2. This was it that warranted his Sons the Rofie Crucians to avow fo {lonely, that Art was long,and Life fhort,Jand all Difea- fes curable 5 when Hippocrates, the father of common Yhjficians , was driven by the infir- mity and endlefs matter of his weak bo- dy and envious mind, tm&ured with Co- vetoufnefs and fickle Medicines, to cry to Rofie Crucians , but they woiild not hear fuch hard-hearted fellows, nor give him long life ; he faid therefore , that Art was long, and life was fhort. And whereas he and his off- fp ring were fain to leave ma- ny difeafed helplefs, to the great fhame of Art,and plague of Mankind,is it any mar- vel when as they prick at them (as 1 faid J with a Butchers-prick? Nay, fee what they do by their practice, they be fo far from all help and comfort to the Patient in greateft danger, that they increafe his mifery many wayes, except the great Ea- . l52 'the Holy Guide. Lib- 3. fer of all pain , and their common Medi- cine Death, be quickly adminiftred : Firft, they make the Patient fuffer the puniftr ment due to their own flothfnl idlenefs, burdening his ftomack with that labour of loofening and hindering the Fine from theGrofs, which they mould before have taken into their GlaJJes : and then by do- ing thefe often , they clean tire his feeble Nature ( as it would tire a Horte ) when as by ftripping the foul and grofs ftuffe, that dulls the working, and retaining the Vertue in a narrow ftrong body, they might do as much at onetime as they do now in twenty ; and becaufe their Medi- cines applied are of fmaller power and weaker then the things that hurt us, they feed, nourifhand ftrengthen the Difeafe and ficknefs } but for all this , if fome of this company and fide of Leaches have been and are yet fometimes able to heal all Difeafes in our body ( though with much ado, as you have heard J fave the four named remedilefs, yea and thofeas well in their fpring as before their ripe- nefs, as they themfelves report. Is there any Proportion in Geometry ? Let the Colledge of Fhyficians lay meafures why the Rojie Crucian mighty Medicines , which I call Cure the Gnr/rt^pailing thefe in power, as much at the L1B.3. The'Holy Guide. 1 63 the ripenefs of a difeafe U above the Spring, (hall not overmatch the ripe as well as the green Difeafes : Wherefore there be no doubts left, but this plainly true, that al- beit the Grecians are weak and halting in this kind of healing, yet is the Egyptian^ (as now they term it ) the Paracelfian and Mineral skill fufficient to cure all difeafes : Then I have paid the whole fum of my promife, touching the fecond means and helps tc Happinefs , [Knowledge of all things paft, prefent^ and to come, long Life, Health, Youth,Riches, Wifdomeand Vertue, how to change and amend all Difeafes in young or old by Rofie Crucian Medicines, which is Life and Health. 3 . Before I clofe , I think it very meet, while the time and place very fitly fer- veth,to do a good deed , and this (hall be my intent , to admonifh and exhort the Grecian Leaches, and their Schollars, the Englifh, Spanilb, and French Phyficians, whom if they follow Hippocrates , Plato J Vythagoraty and his felfows, 1 love for their Learning , and pitty for their mifleading others, (although it be grievousj Tknow too old Scholars,woneinakind of Learn- ing, to unlearn all, as it were, and begin again,for their own credit and virtue,yea, and 164 The Holy Guide. L1B.3. and profit fakealfo, if they eiteern that be ft 5 to eave thofe 'gilded Pills and fugred Baits^nd all other crafty Snares, wherewith the World hath been To long caught, and fo long tormented, and to feek this only heavenly Society 5 'as (to you that are learned j eafily may temper" your felve?* and be acquainted with the ready, true, plain and certain way of healing Difeafes. I think in former time they were not great- ly to be blamed and accufed but of dul- nefs and weaknefs of underflanding , in not applying and feeing this perfection, and Supplying of all their wants 5 but fince they have been fo often warned, not with words only, but with examples of Learned meriyMatbeolus Femelm^ Severinus Uanw, PhiloJud£US, Uiodorus Siculus, and other fuch like, which have and do revolt, and flie away from them daily,yea and by the certain deeds of Paracelfa , it were impiety to fit ftill : Well, few words will ferve to wife and vertuous Phy ficians,fuch as are of themfeivcs forward. 4. But there is another , and I am a- fraid, the greater fort, lefshonefl", more idle and covetous,full of windy pride and words , but empty of all good learning, and they are no friends to Rofie Crucians, nor L1B.5. The Holy Guide. 165 nor they to them , and thefeno gentle warning of any, no though a Kofie Crucian himfelf (hould come and bring Iruxh her felf along with him in perfon, would pre- vail ; who care not 5 it feemsj if half man- kind fhould perifh for want of help and fuccour , rather then loofe their gains •, and which not only fpeak foully,but write foolifhly 3 againft this overflourifhing ver- tue, but alfo like the giddy people of my time, where they oatch the State, banifh the men that hold and poflefs it j where- as if it were a good Commonwealth (quoth Arifiotle) the matter would be fo far from Bani foment or Jnifrifomnent^s they would efteem fuch a Wan as well as the Laws (Tor he is himfelf a LawJ exempt from all obedience and judge him wor- thy to be followed and obeyed as a jfwjf- tualKing. 5. This untowardnefs andcrookednef* in men,caufed all our AH healing Anceftcrs the Kofie Crucians, from time to time, ne ver to abide their Sentence, but to th s great hurt and lofs of mankind, go into willing Banijbment, you have eftablifhed a kind of Government among you (to pur- fue the fame, like a little ) wherein you rule alone over the weak andforry fub- 166 The Holy Guide. LlB.g* fubjetts of mens Bodies,then their health and fafety you ought to feek only, befldes enough to maintain a contented eftate alfo, which VUto allows his Governours, and not profit only fthat were Tyranny J both for humanity and Religion fake 5 for to omit Religion , which they do lightly omit, if a Phyfitian begin once to make a prey of men, he is not only no man, but a moit fierce and cruel Beaft , not fit to be compared and matched any whereof you feek all over the world, as with themifha- pen Monfter of India- , which Arifiotle de- scribes, and calls Martichora^ which being by nature or cuftom, 1 know not whether, xevy greedy upon mans flelh, is with ma- nifold and wonderful helps furnifiied and armed unto it. 6. Firft with a face like a Man , a voice like a Trumpet , two fit things to allure and call him in, and then if heflye,with the fwiftnefs of an Hart to overtake him 5 he darts like a Porcupine, to wound him afar off, and withthetail of a Scorpion, as it were, a poyfoned fhaft near-hand to ftinghim : Furthermore,leftall this might not ferve,by occaiion of Armour, he hath feet like a Lion , fiercely and cruelly to tear him, and three rows of teeth on each chap LjB. 3- **' Holy Guide. \bj ^ chap for the in devouring. Apply you and the Apothecaries the reft your (elves, in fecret, for my part, as I am not a Rofie Crucianfolam as well as they forry to fee evil done. And I am loath to (peak evil or it j and fure were not the great, grief and envy 1 do bear, and alwayes did , to fee deferc trodden down by fuch unwor- thinefs , and fome little hopes I have to hear of the amendment, andfo of the return of the Truth, and good Men out of banimment and imprifonment , you fhould have found me in lFe]lmin[ier-Hatiy as I have been an Attourney in Term time, and mean to continue my pra&ife there fo long as I live, except in the Vaca- tion , which I intend to fpendin Chimical and Re fie Crucian Medicines, for the good of honeft plain meaning men : As you (hall find in the fift Book, after we have proved, the way toHappinefs, the way to know all things pafr,prefent 5 and to come, the way to long Life 3 the way to Health, the way to wax Young, and to conti- nue fo, the way to Bledednefs , the way to Wifdome and Vercue , the way co cure, alter and amend the (rate of the Body; the way to find out the Golden Treafures of Nature and Art, and the way to prepare Rofie Crucian Medicines , then 168 The Holy Guide. LlB.*. their ufe and vertue* they being fafe 3 eafie, experienced, and effectual Rules and Receits, andfuch, as whofoeverpius inpraftifc (hall find true, to the Glory of God, delight of his Soul 5 and cure of his Body. CHAP. tl B. 3 . The Holy Guide. 1 69 l. . — — ■ - ■ ■ '■ m CHAP. XVII. T^he way to waxyong. 1. Old Age, gray Heirs, dim Eyes, deaf Ear ft rottm Teeth , and lame bones renewed to flrengtb and youth-,] ohn AKcklcini example and others : 2. The Reafm : 3. What makes its young and puriflnn'g: 4. Of cherifbing life : 5. Why children and old foll^ are lefs Atlive : 6. The decay 0} the food of life; 7. Example, of renewed youth : 8. Why Princes are not long lived: 9, To freferve you: 10. Of Br achmans and Indian fecrets : ii.TheftayoftheLawofkjnd: 12. The frfi moiflure in Nature: 13. Motion : 14. Heat: 15. How to move the ffirits : i 6. Fruitfulnefs and Activity ; 17. Of Frosl : 18- Of youth: 19. Kinds of wax* ingyong: 20. Various opinious : 2 1- Strange 1 changes: 22. To ff ring to youth from Age : \ 23. Medea and fafon : 24. 0/ the Deeds \ of Nature : 25. Ma« reftored . 26. Tore" new the $kin, nailes and hair : 27. (?f orvfcr in youth : 28. T^tft outh was ncj idle;, nay out of order isyouJh; what thel is youth? they know beft that have loft it| It it the moji Afiive, Fruit full, andbeautifull \ ffate of the body, thefc be the marks and dil ferences, whereby we may know it from a things elfc- I mean a&ivity, not in deeds moving only,but of life and fence a!fo 3 th is it which makes up the Nature of youth the other two marks are taken in, not . need full helps, cither to youth or health an fuch as may not be (pared (efpecially beat ty)but becaufe they be very notable mark) to know youth by ; and that as we hear of true honour and pleafurc abovc,fothe will alfo perforce hang on and follov though they be unlooked for and unrega; dcd. 2. Then this is the matter under hand i this place; this we muft prove pofllble to h kept and prcferved to our lives endjyca an though it were loft before, that it may 1 gotnen again and rcftored; and yet, fir ft, s our naturall heat is the caufc of our ircinj { L i B . 3 . %he Holy Guide. 1 7 1 Co thecaufe of our bed cftate; and youth 11 the flower of it, that, h his chief ftrcngdi and quickneflc. Then keep and recover this, and all is done. 3. But we had need be Cure of this, that the novv^er of heat makes us young and flou- rishing and fure by proof and cxpcricnce,the belt niTu ranee in the World : let 11s look all over and we (hall fiV* -ie ic fo; for to begin wit- Pi ants; although their life is dark, and' they be but la 1 e and unpcrfeci wights, See wy Harmony of the lVcrld(ioi Plato give s them fence) So clearly jellow the qukkpejfc anddul- n?ffe of their imbred beat^ caufed by she two fea* font affummer ajid winter , as appears in In- dia 9 where for the continual heat and moyfturc and fummer of the Country > no plant feels age y or fail o\ the k.af\ that word \% Idle in ihofc parts, becaufe by a flrange ptopeny btiides the reft, it hath it range cooling above the reft , (lauding in water -firftjand then iome what dceply/from 1 the Summer fun. Nay an.ongit m we fee thofc Plants which are hot and -dry, found and hardy* able to witMand the force of cold 3 to keep their leaves in winter, as Hcllh Ivy>Brjx y &c. 4. Moreover keep off the ftarving cold, andchcrrifli the life wkhin, and you may help and amend Nature, and mafee any Plant flouriin aud bear fruit in winter; bow C c 2 # tyi 7 he Holy Guide. Lib. 5 jithatt but an cafy matter : Plant ic ift a flove, and cover the root with Horfe dung, and the reft with chaff, and you fha 1 fe? the proof, if not the profit worth the coft and travail. The fame is feen in beafts, but Jet us leave the middle that we come not to the end too late. 5. Then why arc Children and old folk lcfle atVvejfruitfull and beautifull, then the middle fort, but for want cf heat? for let the/wmmerfirft dry usj Galen faith and that beforcthe birth as 1 fhewed,be great there in ftore, bulk & cjuant!ty,becaufe it waxcth & wancth fiill with his food, our flrft rnoifture and this from thence decayeth dailyj yet his quality , ftrcngth and activity, which jnaketh him worthy of the name of hf at, is then little, as overmuch drowned with o- vermuch forraign and ftrange wctnefTe. (Like as we fee in a green fagoO unable to work his will, and fhew himfelf, either to knot the finruws for ftrength, or conco& the blood for food, and coolor before the for- raign moifhire be fpent and gone, which is not in longtime : The caufc I have proved in my Temfle of Wifdovje. Now (or o}d folk what is fo clear as this, that by re*afon of the daily decay of the food of life, the fainting heat lets the Knot of ftrength andluftincflc flack and loofc again, and the conqpAion and colour of blood, which Lib.?. The Holy Guide. ij % which before made feed and beauty, to de* dine and grow to waterifknefler in fick rocn and women for the fame caufe 5 and' albeit women hive their feed, yvt isitnet hot and quickningfe-d, but as dad fluff only fit co rea ivc life and frm'ton; and ad- roit they be more faire and fmootb then mm, which are hotter, it comes by chmce becaufe the foul leaving', the fremifh of bejuty, by the force of manly hcac are dri- ven outwards, when the flacknefle of the heat of woffisn furTersto remain within, and turn into menftrucS, a ihing more grie- vous and noyfome in truth then beauty is ddighefome. And therefore Anftotk very well calls her a weak man ; snd he makes the male in all kindes to be that which is able to concoft the blood; and that which is not, the female. Then if it be cleared of all doubt, that the chief ftrcngth of heat is the caufe of the flow«r of age and youth, and nothing elfe in the world; let us take and flick to the mater , and fee how it may be maintained firft ; and then re- ftored. 7, 1 will not urge the way of upholding heat in Plants above faid , nor yet this wit- Dcffcof the German who hath found out means for the fame, both in Plants and wights, as he teachcth in his high opinions^ aor yet make account of thofc examples , Cc 3 which 174 The HAy Guide. LlB.^ which by courfe of nature and good order oflife have done wcl 1 , and dr.twn n arto this matter : a? of Lucius the player, who. pronounced upon the ftageat Rome en hun- dred years tog^thtr, nor of Cxntliw who bare Silurn'vie the Conful after fixty two years-, nor yet of King Mafimjfa , who a- bout ninty get a child, a^id ever travailed both in fro ft and (now barerraied, and fiich other like, marked with figncs of long continue! life and lufnmlTK 1 will come to the point at once. F liny' (Tuch an Au- thor) repor:e:hthat the whole nation of indux livelb long free from all dijeajes, well nigh two hundred years without any grief of Body, not once touched with ake of head, teeth, or eyes, nor trouSlcd with fpic- ting, all the great companions (as w; fee J of age 3 that we may gath I cannot tell, unlcfle the Sun, for that great and familiar acquaintance fake, hath favou- red and blefled them above all people, and brought down /Ether, and given it them to nourifh them; for their foyle and feate, becaufe it lyeth right under the Sunns walk and travail , is not through extream heat unhabitable, ( as Thomas Street fondly fuppofcth ) but of other the beft and moft temperate, by rcafon that extream heat of heaven is moft equally anfwered, andjuftly tempered with cokl and moy- ftureofthe ground propoitionable, which thing they knew not, becaufe their eyes were let to high to fee the lower caufe and courfe of nature,moft plain & certain. For God when he meant to make our change- able Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 179 able worid here below, by a wonderful! fortfigmed wifdome , flirted the Sun with- in thofe known bounds, the North and South turns (which tlvy call Trapicfy) leaftwhen he had run round about, he (hould have worneand w^flcdit everywhere alike, and rn^deit fmooth and even in all places; and fo al either 3 dry ground or a (landing poole, both unfit for the variety of change which he mear t to fee play before him-, but now ha is fo curbed and retrained within thofe bounds atorefaid, he can wearethe ground no further then his force can reach, nor any otherwHc then as his force fervtth-, fo that the earth muft needs be moftworne and wa- fted, where it Iyeth within the compafle of h;s walke; and fo rile by little and little D on both fides without the Turns,untill it come to the top and higheft pitch, where it is fur- theft off, that is under th? two pins (which they call Poles) of the world. Then heare for the coldnefle, the earth is fit to thicken the aire and breed water, and for the bene and falling to fend it down to the midft and lowed: part; wherebv the great ftrengthof heat is drawn upon heaps and in great plenty; and for this caufe and the length of thepigh'.s, it cannot fcattcr abroad, and vanim away to nought, but thickens a pace, and falls again abundantly^ raining three or fourc times a day. Whereby we may l8o the Holy Gride, Lib- 3. Judge, that this middle girdle wherein we inhabite, canro: be fo broyhd and unfuf- ferable as our Starr- mm avow, but in all reafonverymilde and temperate; 8c chink that as the Sun meant to favour al! parte as much as might be, fo chiefly and above all thatfasreafon, yea and necifluy bound him) wiih which he is beft acquaictedjand as this is certain (by report of all Authors) in all other things, ya and in men touch- ing all other gifts and blefllngs, fo we ma/ gutffe this one which we have in band, Wis not flipt and left out in (o large a char- ter. 11. But for all this, and in good fadneft (w«havebuc argued hhherto,it isnocgood to feck to difpence againft the lofs of na- ture, and it were better to dtferedit Vliny the reporter, (though be he never fo good an Author J then Nature her fclf the Au- thor of all things ; for this ftory is fet a- gainft the whole courfc and drift of nature whofe works as they be not woven and made up at once , fo they decay and weare away by little and little: and therefore ad- mit thefe men of India by fpeciall licence from above, dobearcage frefh and young a long time, in refpeft of other Nations; Yet we muft in no wife think this is fore- ver and not for death; asP/iw; faith,for then they fhould not dy and depart as other men do. Lib. 5. The Holy Guide. 181 do 3 natural Jy, which is when age creeping on and changing by little and little, is at Juftmsde ripe znd falling; but rather by iome fuddain force be taken, and at ic were delivered by and by to I knovv not what hang-man among the delinks, to be cut off and put to death by violenc^but Vfhac force can that be > nay I affaire you further that if the ftroak of fickneffe and difeafes were a- way (a? faith he, it is almoft ) they might live for ever; another breach of the never broken laws of kinde. 1 2; Wherefore let this ftory go. and letm hold this rule for cercain, that by reafon there is no other food for naturall heat c- pen in kirtdc, but our firft moyfture,which becaufe for want of fupply, it likewife wa- ficth daily, yout h rauft needs by nature fall away and cannot lafl for ever. And yet we muft alfo(to come to the purpofej remem- ber how it was full often above proved,tbat fuch a free fupply of due food for life were to be made byski!,and fctchtoutofthebot- tome of nature and all things by the Divine Art of Homes. Wherefore to avoid the jar and ill found of our often beating upon one thing, our Pantarva. and heaven above de- clared, is it that feeds our heat, that hol- deth and prefcrveth 1m\h\ that is ic I fay that doth the deed, for manycaufes fet down before 5 1 will fend them that come "not hi- ther 182 The Holy Guide. L1E.3. therthc right w*y back again totakca;! before them. 13. But there is another thing; motion I fiiean, and that helps to bear up the ftate of life and hear, whieh I (cant touched in my difcourfc of Phyfick there, and yet it (houlJ be handled ; becaufe although ic be not (o needfuli as the formerly et it cannot in any cafe be wanting; for as Mar -tiallfeofle like unto A/aa fas we term it) and valour it Clf lofeth his glory and brightneffr in peace and quia nttfe, asyou may read at large in our Idea of the Laiv ^Governments and Ty- ranny, the fecond Edition; fo this heat that rules our body,though it be never (o fb: on£ andlufty, y*t it cannot fofoonrtft, as it decays and as it were rufts wiih Idlentdc , nay the bedy it felf being as I {hewed abovejan Airy and Fiery temperature^ muft needs have quick motion, as one of the two pillars of his ftate; and therefore Tlato by the example of the greafi world , very well advifeth us ftill to move both body and minde,and that together^ v*c mean to have them long con- tinue. And we finde his Counfell good by daily proof , when we fee thofe that move the memory mod, as wife and learned men, do hold itlongeft,but becaufe thfy do not forthemoft part ex^rcife their bodies, to lofe that quality: Whereas quite contra- ry the common fort, by rcafon they move dius Lib.?. The Holy Guide. j8? this much , and that other litle, arc a great while in body lufty, when their memory is gone as quickly. 14. How moving increafcth heat, it appea- red* in all p!aecS}firft in the Spring of al hcae the Sun above , which could in no wife fervc to ftretch fo far as to heat half the world at once , if thofe huge heaps of hea- venly beams and fpirits did not help him. Sec my Harmony of the World* Then they wouM be (hut up faft as they be in ftones , and metalls and fuch like alfo, and hard lower lodgings, and not (as we fee them) mod free, quick, lively, and fwiftly Airing* no more doth any fire below burn fo fierce- ly as that which by a coldblaftis driven up clofe and round together,and we fee by thofe that move and ftirr moft lively;t9 pafs by the lightning,(as the weakeft to the flron geft in *hc world> and a number more fuch proofs; for what mould I ftand fo long u- ponfo plain a matter.?) motion doth*%ion only increafe heat where it is, but begets and pjrehafeth it of nothing. And not on- ly that way which every man fecth, by rub- bing two hard things together, butaHb by grating a hard thing againft the foft and ycilding aire, which is fomewhat rare, and yet known to the Babylonians in times pa/?, when tbey ufed to roft egges by whirling them a- bout in a fling in the fame manner; andfo thefc Archers that have jeen thz leaden beads of the Holy Guide. LlE.^ cftbtir ArroKPSyto melt in. flying (o great a fa-* thcr o'heitw motion thit we' mav judge how able he is to keep it when ir. is once gottei : Read our Temple of VVtfe- dome. 15. Now if this be fufficiently (howne and proved, wenced beftow the letter la- bour to teach men, how to move their beat; and fpirits, becaufe every child that can go, can do it; and it is enough to exhort them that love th*mfeJves to do it. 16. Then bythefe two means of like meat and motion, we have our youth ftill (that is) our chief colcHrJruitjullneffe and a$ivity, it there any thing elfe } thsfe make //j> all the be- ing find nature of youth; except you fear the lofTeof his hang-byes, andappurtenanceSj which are teeth, the fweetneffe of breathy the fmoothneffe ofskjn^ and of have the colour Ho- rn al. tj. But it is no danger if you will let me run them over ; for if our heat and moifture remain without decay, firft the Jaw bones tvherein the teeth be mortized, will be fuH and moift,able to gripe and glew and fo to hold the fame from falling, then all ill frnel comes of rawneflc and want of heat to con- co& it; wrinkles of cold whichmake the face to flirink,& gathers that together, which heat fprcads a broad fmoothly, and gray haires r from LiB. 2. the Holy Guide. 149 ^ from the fame caufe^ for when our 113: Ural heat faints &fail!sit withdraws it feiffrom the outmeft coldeft parts foonefr, and leaves the moyfturd raw , which for lack of in«» , vard heat to file and keep it, JyeSopcnto the force of outward co!d ; whcncc comes all rottenncfie, and from this a white coat and hoirintfle. Therefore we fee why ficknefs and forrow bring gray haires fo fdft, yea fometimes preftntly: as to paffc by the plain- er, you fiiall hear by one ftrange example of aforrovpfullycung gentleman f Italy jhat be- ing fallen into the hands of Pirats,and laid wrapt in a faife ready to be ca[i over boun ?, and with* in twenty foure hours f$acc, released and fet at /i- bcrty y vtho by great grief and fears forcing it8 he it to retire to the heart her Caftle, made his head white and aged in that fpace, 8c cculd never ga it turne again all his life, which was a long time after. And fowc avc this poin: briefly and eafily difpatcheef ftcapfe it was a loofe and eafy matter; but :he mxt,ihat is to recover youn^y ears [pent and )Iown away, feems no fuch thing, nor to be ifed in chrt order ; for as a new and ftrong uilding by due and daily reparation, is cpt found a long time; whereas if for lack; )f care, it be once falne to decay , it cannot without great coft and time be recovered; :vcn fo it is with our body; as it is eafy if ic )c taken in time with heed to preftrv c it; fo 150 the Holy G Hide* Lib. 3S if by negligence the weathf r have once beat I in an J made it rottcn,ic fcems a marvailousjl ynrk torcpairek. Although indeed it be much ha r der 3 r,otl] onely then his fellow , but then all the rcfti that were before; yet we will not give ir over now , and like our idle Toet, fail tht hfta&of life; wherefore lcti*s go forward, and with all our endeavor ftrivc to (hew, thai \ouib loqg before loft (though not fo cafilyj yet as well may be recovered as it was prelerved, 19. There be fo many kinds of waxing young aga : n named in Pbilofopby, and givca to the nature of wights, that it were goodi fi, ft to fort them out, to fee which we mean; in the place, Icaft our labor fall into their han^s that can quickly miftake ; one ofj thefe ways is by name ontyjand not in deed,l As vrbn the fo'ft and bare shinned beaftsjife by\ courfe of kjnde , twice a year y the Spring and\ fall of the leaf , to cafi iff their upper coat and skjn , shey fay they put off old age , andwa: young ageing when it is in truth the puttim on of age rather and decay of Nature , ai appe tFcth to them that know the caufc, thai even for ve y cold and drought, the trix plain ear marks of age , their skin doth loufcn and wither awa 1 '. 20. There is another kinde, as far in ex- tremity as that other, and all together in- deed, Ll B. 3 . The Holy Guide. \ 5 1 deed, which Alconeon cifis joyning of ones end to his beginning , and Which he faith roan cannot do, and therefore dyes ; and this is and ever was, not the opinion of Poets onely, but of Pbilofophers , and not of Greeks onely , but of all Nations except our old Egyptians , and Rofie-Cruftam , n:en always in all rare wifdom efteemed. 21. Thcfe men, as Lfaid above, do not afeto mark the ftcps of kind, and hermoft Grange and unwonted changes, but alfo ct and venter upon the like by skill -, yea ind to pafs further, if any reafon will car- y them; and fo at length they came, and I mow not how , or whether by guefs or nowledgc to this ruled certain ground , of aifing the dead , and whether it was pof- ible tor any man, put out by forcible and 'iolcflt death by natural means to rife and juicken again,and fo to be renewed, and as t were by a new birth reftored. 22. But what be their new and marvel- ous means > which way is this incredible ourfe performed? after they fawnot onely ome parts of other wights (as the tailes of izards, the eyes of Snakes and Swallows) ut alfo the whole bodies of cold and blood - rfsoncs, clean razed and deftroyed , Net* iraUy to faring a frefb) end to be reftored , as gnahe cut in peices and rotten in dmg^ to nickM) mdevtry piece to frsve a Snaks dgaln^ k Dd 2 tb*i 152 The Holy Guide. Lib. 5 they began to reach by Divine knowledge and pra- ctice at fome further matters; and to fay fomc whole and bloody wights, that spring not out of nothing, but arc breed by force of Seed and conjunction of Male and Female, and the like kindly corruption , to raifc them up again and renew them ( as a bird burnt alive in a clofe glafs, and fo rotted^ and then inclojed in a (belt to hatch it under a ften, and fo refiore thejame*) and other ftrange proofs thc)> ceafed not to make, un:ill at laft they durft be bold to think, that any wight, even a man and all might by the fame courfe wax young and be born again i Hill, and live for ever. 23. This is the fecond way of waxing young again, and as great an extrcam as the other, and as far from any meaning, though there be divers reports and {lories Sown abroad, of men that took the fame race in themfelvcs and others , and found both good and bad fuccefs ( according as a man that favors it will thirk ) a« the work was intended by them which were put in tnaft; Medea fped well fjy they y in proof, upon Jafons Body, and made him young again , a$ Tully/tfiffc, recoqxendo; but Hsrmes,ffo Poet Virgil, and the Spanifh Earl failed upon them- f elves > as fome bold, but as others bold, they had good tucl^and came to their purpofe. To know tfre whole Art, read the fecond Book of the LiB.g- ihe Holy Guide- 1 5 3 Harmony of the Worlds and the Temple of Wifdcm. What mould a man fay to this matter? albeit I do not choofc this kinde of renewing, ye: I will not condemn it with- out canfc, and judge it for a thing Impof- fiblc ; for 1 fee no reafon Luc that the ftory of t he Sn?ke may be full cafily true, be* caufo it is bred by it feif , and of more un- fit ftuffe in the fame manner ; and for the reft all is one to nature , if the ftuffe and place te meet and convenient , having her general feed of begetting f which I faid was all one in all things ) in her bofome ever ready, and thereby making (yet as we heard before ) all feeded Plants without feci fomewhere, yea and perfect wights both water and Land ones ; and at firft when the ftuffe, and wombe, and her own heat, and all ferved very fitly, having wrought man and all fo. 24. But now why is feed given up to things^ becaufe nature for want of the former helps ( as they could not laft for eveO fo not able in all places to work the raw ftuffe of the beginnings f o far, to fuch pcrfe&ion, unlefs (he finde both the ftuffe well drcft and half made to her hand ; and a whole womb like an artificial fornace, to help and fct her forward ; well then for this one matter and manner , of reftoring man, let us call it to the account of reafon* D d 3 and 154 *** Holy Guide. L1B.3, and confidcr what is that feed that makcth man, and the place where he is made 5 wh t is all the work ? Is it any thin?, elfe but a part oj man (except bis minde) rotted in a con « tinual, even, gentle, moiji, and mighty heatX is it not li\e that the -whole body rotted in JiJ»a tnanner, and in a womb-agreeable, (baO fwim ont at laft, quicken and rife the fam> thing*. I cannot tcll,l will neither avow nor difavow the matter; Nature is deep and wonderful in her deeds , if they be fearctud and unwound to the bottom. I cannot tell, I fay; nature may fuffer this, but not Religion; and yet it is a dangerous trial as our men, and the, Poet found by Come mens fay ings. 2 5 . they might more fafely have wade a proof upon a piece of themselves, which we caO Seed, ordered by that $\il\u\ kjnde of recoclion (which bath been found true , as fome report , and I think it certain) or perhaps more kindly and throughly * but fure more civilly and reli- gioufly in the due place appointed ; for this alfo a kind of renewing of himfelf and wax- ing young again, when his child is (as Ari- fiotle faith well ) another himfelf , oncly Cundcred and fet apart from himfeife; but neither is this third kind enough for us-, we mujr have th? whole and imparted man refiored. 26. Then the fourth is it I mean , which Js indeed a mean between all the reft, especially between that empty and dan- LlB. 5- The Holy Guide. 15$ dangerous deed aforefiid , performing more then the one in the out- fide, and lef* within then theoher : for this w*y doth not onely by a better race of rcfrefhing it with heat and moifture , renew the ikin, nails 5 teeth alfo , though thefc by the fame way of putting off the o'd ones; J)ut for the inward chief and needful pai ts, how out of the fecdatfirftby the natural workman, it (hall neither make nor mar any , onely change and a'tcr , purge and place them all in their former ft te and foundnefr, youth and ltiftinefs. 27. Then let us fee how we may be re- newed and wax young in that order; be- ginning flrft with thofe idle and necdlef* things (I cannot call them parts) of the body, which after were made up, fini- fhed, grew , aud fprung out from the leav- ing of our meat and nourishment; thefeeffr, nailes, and hair •, as for the skin it is a pare of the feed , or the cruft that over caft the thing , when it was fully baked; then as thefe had no certain courfc and order of kind in coming 5 for ( to omit hair thac goes and comes upon every light occafion) fomc are born without nailes, and fome with teeth; when ethers again have none before they be old, and fuch like diforders^ f o no doubt by skill they may come and go again without any hurt or great change to D d 4 the 156 The Holy Guide. L1B.3 1 the body. V liny tells of one whofd teetb came arain after he wu anhundredyears old,and up' wird: and Jebn Mici>Jain an Engli(h Mini-> iter renewed his age and waxed young be- ing very old as they fay ; and I know not well Whathsr the Souldiers in Germany by drinking of a faring by the Kiver Renin e, had their teetb jbal^en out, and loofi and had them, come again a new. Bin this is certain thac trnre be waters in the world, which by a fpechli quality make thofe beads thac drink thereof, call their haire, homes and hoofs, and fo renew them, as the Poet faith. 28. What need many words? tfcus part is eafy and of fmall weight, and wc may paffc it over ; but that an old feeble, withered,crookcd, and barren man, fhould be taken from the brink of his grave, as it were and led back to his former youth, and luftineffe,isa thing fay they, both in truth falfe , and in reafon incredible; nay if two fuch men were fct before us, it would feem in fence ridiculous : indeed it will feem fo to fuch men as are either all fence and no reafon , or elfc whofe wits are all beftowed upon the fearch of fuch troubles as iff not worth the fearching. 29. Hhhadbeen fpent about thedeep and hidden works of nature, there would Come have appeared as great as this if, and flayed L i B . 3* the Holy Guide, 157 flayed all childifh words; for my part I am Willing to fupply ihs want, to unfould thegreateft a&s of kinde, and fcc them be- fore you ,bu: th-s work grows too fift and proves bigger then either I wift, or would* it is plam.cd upon Co good and fruitful! a ground 5 ytt have one or two of theficteft examples, and nearcft and match them, and this tog*thea\\ of> then we grant nature is able to do this if (he be willing; but it («emeth not becaufe (he never doth it; (lie runneth ftill If (he be not letted, her appointed race ; but if there be many dead chances able to hin« der and let this courfe of nature,bow much more can the wit of man, (which is a fpark of the winde which gave by kinde her Commiflion)dothit> as (he doth often, if I m'tghtftand to (how it, both ftoup and lengthen , and yet (he is never willing and confenting. let us fee then for this matter In hand, how skill is able to overrule kind by her own confenr, and make her willing to returne and wax young again; firft let us know that all Philofophers, Bofte Crucians and Pbyfitians hold, the life and foule and naturall heat to be aliwayes of ic fell young and lufty, and never old,but to ap- pcarefoby reafon of her failing part her inftrutnents;and that 1 have often (hew*d in a kinde of fire waxing and waning accor- ding to her heat and motion; then her e one good help to the great work of renewingjn like fort the parts of the body are not mar- red and loft, as they fay of a rich man that he is decayed, when his moi^ey the life of the LiB.3- Ti&e Holy Guide. 159 the World, hath deft and for faken him; even to when our natural heat the life of this little world, is faint and gone, the bo* dy (hrinks up and is defaced;buc bring again hsatinto the parts, and likewife money in- to the bankrouts Cofcn , and they (hall be both lufty and flourifh again, as much as e- \cr they did. 31. But how miy this heat be brought again? to make few words, even ?s fheis kept and held by due meat and* motion; for if (he faint andfaile foe want of them only, then give her them, and fhsfhalirs- cove r her fclf again ; meat is the bait that draws her down ; Motion comes forward like a gad-bee to prick her forward; but that work is performed in this ordert fiift this meat Which is that fine and J&titrial oyle, often difcribed by Eugenius Ikeodi- daftus in his book entituled the Koto. Mundi 9 and in myRofie Crucian Axfamata lih.2.chap, 7. exceeding piercing fwifwiTc, divides, fcatters and fcourcs away the grofsand foul degrees and leavings, which for wane of the tillage of heat, had overgrownein our bodies and which wascaft like a block- i(h ftay-ffth in our wyjoflay the free courfe of thefripoflife, if me lifted to ftir and run her wonted race, (which fome think it enough In this matter j but alfo fcattereth all about her dew and defired meat, and ffrft moy fture to 1 60 ihe Holy Guide- Lib. $ to draw her forwards. By which means our life havinggotten both her full ftrength and live lyneffe, and returned like the Sun infummer into all our quarter i , begins to work^ as fnjb as (be did atfir(l\ (for being the fame upon the fame (he muft needs do the fame) knitiog and binding, the weak and loofe joyms and (Incws, watering and concoft- ing all by good digeftion, and then the idle parts lik: leaves (hall in the hot Summer Ipring and grow fourth afre(h, out of this new and young temper of body, and all the whole face and (hew (hall be young and fljur idling. This is quickly fpoken,fay you,ifit were as foon done. It were happy Medicines, nay thit w:re a miracle; but 1 work no mira- cles; I only help, as I faid, the willing race of kiride, wherefore as a man is long decay, ing and wearing away, or rather in make* ing and waxing to his perfection 5 fo in mending no doubt, he cannot return all at once, but muft creep back by little and little, and fo be re ftored ; or elfe I would bav& told you atfir;} dafb oftbft fpriug in the Ifle Bonica which Matter Edwards doth witneffe, will in fewdaysreftoresaman quitc(faving gray haires and wrinkles) and make him youngagain. Nay if! had taken acourfe to delight wom:n and children,and to win credit among the common fort, I would have LiB.3. The Ho If Guide. 1 6 1 have fought the Legend, and rifled all the goodly wonders in the world, and fitted many to my purpofc. But ?f I ferve Madam Bcata my Love, and wat upon a wi(>r mi- rlrcls, yea and in i he raoft inward and fecrec place among them, Co I would 6y my will, (peak nothing that mould not be pleafing in hr light, and well founding in the ears of wifdome; Wherefore lee theie few fuffice for this matter bdng th^ tmth, as I lear- ned of Nature. CHAP 162 The Holy Guide. Lib ■*c CHAP. XVIII. The Way to Tleafure, or . the Worlds efleemed Happinefs. i. Of poverty and riches: 2. Of worldly wetltb': V Of Arabian Hna\er- ground bodies : 4. Of Socrates under- ground I ecrets: 5%, Ibattbs heal of the earth boyles fvoekj into Minerals : 6. Of§{uickcfi}ver: 7 . Ibe futyburous and Mineral quality of the breath of man : %.lhe Frozen Aire 1 9. Of Purging Quick^ fiiver 2 j o. Viffolving of feeds and breaths of mettals: ii. Earthly Brmfkone to makf a perfetl weight : 12. Sun and Moon ma\ejman : 13," Of making Mettals : 14 Inflrufiion. 15. Earth in Power, wafer in Quick, ftlver e~ quail 1 16. Nouri(bment in Minerals and Plants : 1 7. Ofgroffe arid fine bodies : 18. Mineral heat : 19. Heat perfells Minerals, .old covers the rrorkj: 20. Iron and Copper of be Nature of Quick- filver: 21. lb at Nature Lib. 3. Tbe ^oly Guide. 163 Nature intended white and ythw Copperas GoldandSilver: 22. Silver and Gold in ail Metals: 23. Degrees ofMetalls ckanfedz 24 . Nature changeable 125. 0/ mending Na+ tare by Art : 26. Tta imagination of Birds. 27. Guides: 28. Antimony: 39. T6e co- /<3«r 0/G0W faflned: 30. To ld> but if it beflronge and fuddain , it turns the weak woi k out of the way quick- ly and burns \t up quickly, and makes nought but Iron , or at the leaft if the heat be fomewhat better, Coffer ; yea and forne- times the fullncfsof the earthly Brimfione alters the courfc of nature in this work, as alfo there is odds of Quick- ftlver ; but indeed the caufe of all the difference, is in the working-heat that maketh anddifpo£ cth the beginning, midtft and crfd of all, thus and thus, according to her ftrength and LiB.$. IheHolj Guide. ' 169 and continuance , and which is the main ground co this purpofe, Q«ic^/F^eristhc mother of all themcctals. 3. Now when the work is done, it ly- et.h yet as it did all the while in a thick flowing form, lik? ths form of a molten mtttal, and then ic is fit tomakeTelefmes tor love marriage, health, long life, youth, gaming * for fortune in Merchandize and Trade-, for war and all other things. But when the owner comes to enjoy it, bring- ing in the cold breath ot the air upon it, like unto Corral,and other foft and grow ing Sea-plants, it freezeth and hardencth of a (uddain fie for the turn and ufeof man in other things, wherefore ic was made and ordained- Thefe be the grounds of the moft and beft of our men Rofte CrufianSy that is of men beft feen and furtheft tra- velled in fuch matters, where unto Canton a man indifferent, and none of us, yet ▼ery learned, agreeth jumpe as may be; but lcaft thefe dime and little lights may feern to be darkned , with the briahtnefs and fame of Ariftotle D and his Scholar Tbeopbrat) and the lace renowned Agricola^ ! holding hard the contrary, and the fame Ifomctime ftifTely maintained 9 1 will as much as in me lyech > and ny narrow bounds will fuffcr , endeavor to lay the icafons all down in order 9 which mo^ed Ec 3 ehcaa 1 70 The Holy Guide. LlB. 3 them to think thus, and ftaid them in the fame opinion \ that wife men at Icaftmay lay one rcafon with another , and judge which is the weighted and worthy to bare the beft price, with the vain regard of out- ward mews and authorities. 9. Firft,Tnac the Mineral fluff fprung out from the rock Savings aforefaid, all cunning Miners can tell you, whoilillby the nature and grille of theftone, though there be twenty fcveral forts (as there be fometimes in the rock)arc able certainly to fay this or that vein followcth. But to pafs over lightly the lighter matters, and fuch as they grant as well as we ; that Quick* ' ftlver is the neareft ftuffe or menftrue , or mother of mettals , that is the thing in great ftrife and queftion , when it needed not in my opinion, if we mark the con- fent of all thofe men, in all Nations , that put the name upon thinps, which were not? of the unwifeft fort, flatly to allow this faying, when they by calling it in Gree^ Latine, and all other tongues quick or li- ' quid SiWer, in fecret meaning plainly fay, that if by the force of thofe two whole workmen aforefaid it were flayed and bet- ter purged, ic were nothing elfe but Sil- ver for indeed Avicen and fome other of the Learned fide , leaving out the middle degrees, hold the very fame opinion, which LlB.?. JheHoly Guide. 17 1 I alio think true , if the fturJe and heats (as they arc in hoc Countries) be good and fauhlefsjbut the difquiet Will account this kind of argument unskilful, and fo caft it off, then remove the cold that at laS came upon the mcttal and hardened it, andic appears ro the eye nothing elfe but (jach an altered Quick- filver. 10. Or if thewitnefs of fence be fome- times falfeand deceitful, enter ourSchoJe and behold ihem by a more kindly and gen- tic way lead back to a txueQuickcftlver , both in cold and heat abiding , being a true rule in RoficCrutian Phifick and Phi- lofophy , every thing to be made of that whereuntoit is lofened and difolved. But if all this will notferve, pafs alittle fur- ther into the border and edge of fecreta 3 and you (hall fee them by following the fteps of kinde underneath (which I mark- ed out before ) that is by fowing thedif* folving feeds and breaths of mettals upon Ghickcfiher, to curdle and trine her in 1 hat form of metal which they will and wiftv for. 11; Now for that earthly Brira/rotff, na- ture doth make a perfect wight , and is fain to break her firft order, and to take vhe help of a whole womb 5 & of another work- man^ tvenfo to frame' a perfect dead crea- ture befides the help oi Eugenlus 7beodi- E c 4. daUnty 172 1 he Holy Guide . LtB. 3. daUut'-, boch to taQiion and 10 boilc it to petft&ion. j 2. Then as Arijlotle faichjf^ 5«n d?/ukk*fther 9 as we by Aritlot k$ and Api- GQlafs ftrugling and firiving againft the ftrcara Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. 175 tfream about it, giving the caufe of his flawing and flying from the fi;e unto abun- dance of aire in him, for then his Jight- jiefs and feeding of the fire, two things far from his nature would a? weil *s in ail airy bodies , (nine forth and appear unto us. 14. But he that ftands upon TLugenius Ihcodidaftui grounds and rules Jaiddown before nn~y cafily perceive his own raw, cole, and watery condition , to make him fl/e the fire his enemy $ and this even pro- portion in power and equal rule of earth and water in him, tobcthe caufeof his runing. 15. The firft is plain, but that there is as much earth in power, as water in §>ukkc filver ( albeit it feems all water ) and no more of this then of that , furely mingled and put together, appears becaufe it is the onely dry water in the world; her earth haling one way makes her dry, and her wa- ter another caufeth her to flow ; but this is a certain fign thereof, that when we find by reafon all other things , if cither earth or water rulcth over them , either to (land with cold and harden, or clfe to melt with fire and water ; , ycc we fee plainely this one dry water called ghiickffilvtr to ftoop, and ycild to neither 5 but to our pur* ppfc. The 174 T ^ e Ho b Gf tide* L1B.3. The reafons why the heat of heaven is the workman in the Mine, are many 5 but hear a few and briefly delivered , if he vvorkcthand minglcth (as I proved above) all perfeft mingled bodies, then that mail lec and bar him from this labor alfo, the depth and hardnefsof the rock? No, for if thofe fubtilc bodies which we call fpi- rits, are able in the opinion of all men, to pierce through (tone walls without brcich or fign of paffige, how much more fubtile and able to do it j is this heavenly foul > But all men grant the workmanfhip of li- vings to flow, from thatondy caufe and fountain > then tell us how it comes to pafs that Fifb (by the wknefs of good Au- thors) are fame times found in the dee fes and found earth , where no water runneth 3 nay which way do very loads get into certain flones in Germany , and Mill-done roc\s in France , even fo clofe that they cannot be fpifd, before they be felt in grinding and break themfclvcsasGeorge^grico/d reporteth 16. But if Minerals as well as Plants take their food and nourishment, wax and grow in bignefs , aU is clear 1 hope and void of doubt ; this will I prove hereafter. 17. In the mean time let us win it again by proof and tryal, the ftrongeft battery th'Atmavbe; cold bindes and gathers in the ftuffc both like and unlike 3 grofs and fine L1B.3. rte Hoi) Guide. 175 fine together , without any clcanfing or fundcring ; but mettals cfpccially arc very finely and cleanly purged bodies. Again if cold frozen and packt up gold together, the force of heat (as we fee the proof in all things') (hould cut the bands and unmake the work again , which is not. To this, what colour fp-rings from cold, but his own watcrifti and earthly colour? that if a thing be dyed with other colours, we know ftraightway where it had them-, be- fides cold leaves no fmell behind it ; but heat is thecaufc of allfmells , then too- mitt the firy fmells of fomc ftones, and fweet favor of others, and the variety of fent in juices happened it that Silver found at Mar)+berg fmelt likp violets , as Agricoh re- ports-, that all men feel the unpleifant fenc of Ccpptr and other bafe mettals. But mat k the practice of the plain men, when they ocvifc and judge of a Mine below,they take their aim at no better mai k, then if by grating two ftones of the hill together, they feel a fmell of Brimftonc, becaufe they take I tbus the leavings of the mettals in their concoction.- To befhortdobut caft with your felvcs, why there be no mettals but in rocks and mounyines , unlefs they unload an 3 (hut them down into the p/*zitf, and then wherefore foul mcttal in cold Coun- ties, and fine (tlver and gold, befides pre- cious 176 The Holy Guide. > LlB^. cious (tones in hot Countries, and you fhall find thceaufc of thi* to tc'thediffrerc of the refining and purging heat , and the clofenefs of the place to keep in the heaven * ly h at, a"d iWicnneis with «11, and emp- tineis of Plants to draw it forth and fpend ic- 18. Some cannot conceive how heat mould caufc this matter, when they feel no heat in the Mine ; I will not fay to fuch that this heat is mod milde and gentle every where, and there efpecially ; buc bid them bring apiece of Mineral earth, andLyit in the open air , and they (hall feel if they will lay their hand upon it , no fmall but a burning heat, by the cold blaft ftirred up and caufed, even as the lurking heat of Lime is ftirred up with water. 19. Wherefore we may fo fafely fit down and build upon it that all Minerals are made with heat , and get thereby their be- ing and perfection , albeit the outward fhapeand laft cover asic were of the work, is put on by cold. 20. Now for the ftcps and degrees of rr)ctca T s, that they all except Iron and Cop* per , though fome do not except then?, arife from the fteps and degrees of backing the fclf fame thing and ftuffe of §>uick- filver, it appears in Lead Mines, where is always for the moft part fome Gold and Silver LlB. 3- The Holy Guide. i?7 Silver found hy report of good Authors 5 and therefore albeit faith,that cunning Mi- ner?, ufe in fuch cz(c to (hut up the Mine aga'ne, for thirty or fourty years, to b^ke ihe Lead better, and kke it ontoputii- fa&ion.and thzt thing to have been found true in his time in Seeavoyia, 2i. But what do White and Yellow Copper U found in the ground fignifie nnto us, but that Nature was travelling by Way of conco&ion unto the end of Silver and Gold. Again how comes U topafs ths* plain Ariificcrs can fetch out of every met- tal forne Gold and Silver ? and out of thefefome bafs raettals , unlcfs Gold and Silver were the heart and belt part of tke whole body , and of one ftlf fame thing with the mtttal*. 122. Nay Farafelfus avowcth that not on- ly in trwfe, but in Mines of minerals, things further offas you know a atv never without filver ind gold ; and thtrtfore h: giveth Counccll to water them, as. if they were plants wiih their own mine, & kindly wa- ter 3 affuring us that they will grow up to rirenefle, and in few years prove as rich as any gold and (liver mine, 23. Then we fee atlaft theftrengthof this IMettallinground unfhaken, and (landing fureforall the battery of the ftoutfft Gre- cians f that all m 27. Then how (hall we purge out this nil and greafic workmanjto make the work f anymetalclofe and well coloured > Na- urc would have done this in time by con- ?&ion, wkhouc any other help 5 but we iuft haft to (hortcn the time fit for ufe,two evifesjonc to breed c!ofencf?,and the other 1) bring on good colour; thefirftis a bin- ing (hell, the next is a dying cunniiig> for Vf ths 1 8 2 the Holy Guide. Lib.? the firft, let Nature AM be our guide and) leader. 28. As (h: in all her eafie changes, ufcth] to confume and raze out the weaker with the ftrongcr •, like fo we , if we mean to devour and confume all thegrea(ie8c grofe: fluffs of themtttal, that when all is clean and fine, the mectal may draw it up clofc *ogeiher$we muft encounter it with a ftrong like; what was the Brintflone or any other filth in Qjickfilver , and of what flock think you? Did I not tell you itfprung out of a confufed heap of middle minerals, and was a Mineral breath and V2por ? then Ictus take the foul and (harp minerals, and in a ftrong fire fa them upon the mentals, and thty (hall furc by fearching and lifting roundabout, quickly draw to them, cat and drink up all the water like drofs of the! mettal , and leave the reft which is unlikel clean and unrouched ; 1 need not (land any moreahoutit ; do we not fee how SoapaJ fil hy ftrong tring in battail, and working! with a foul and filthy cloth, makes ic clean and fpotlefa > Nay, to come nearer, howl doth Antimony that fierce and foul mineral^ where he is fer. on work with Gold to; chanfe him, fearch and run over all the meit 1, take and confume his like meat, and the ftrange and unclean parts , leaving the reft as unlike and unmeet for him 5 to be LlB.J. The Holy Guide. 183 be ftiort, if you mark well , you ftiall find it the plain ready and kindly way , not onely in all purging* , but in every natural thing. 29. Then let this part go by, and fith now the roettal is as clean , fine, weighty a- gain as gukl^ftlver ,or clofe & fledfaft as Sil- ver, or rather more; let us take the next in point hand, and bring on the colour of GoId,this ftandeth upon two ponits,it muft have the fairnefft: and laflingncfie of Gold. 30. But hear is all the cunning, to dvc the mcttal all over , with an ev.rlafting colour •, to this purpofc,it had need be able to peirce the mcttal, and to abide at fire ; thatfirft is not hard again, But how (hall this be done > perhaps We need not ftrivc before we lay the colour, to make it ftead- faft and binding ; but like as Gold will, Co faft embrace>and hold his flying,makc quick- filvcr, if (he be a little cleanfed and made fit to receive him , that no fire (hall depart them ; fo the clofenefs of this one fledfaft mcttal (hall deft nd and favc the colour; but fuppofe it will not , yet if Iron and Cop- per, nay, the midle minerals may be bound and made abiding in the fire (as our men hold arcdteaeh) then their colours may be flaid and made ftedfaft alfo, Ffi . 3i,Wha* 184 The Holy Gride. LlB. 3 3 1. Whar is remaining, if you be not yet content goto School and learn to faft«*n and flay Hying spirit?, as t'-ey call them, Cjr- dan who denyesit poflibie to make an open nitttal, dofc and ftedfift, yet alows this matter eafie, and fith we arc here, and he fo ready, Jet ustalk with him a little. I nizrvil much at him, a man fo well learn- ed (bii: indeed not skilled in theArt v the thief of all Learning ) tr-at aLhough he hadfpofcen well .1 great while, and allow- ed all mtttals to be made of oneftuflc, and to travel by one way of concoction unto one cnd.Gvld: and to differ by one accident one! y and chance or t^ofe degncs ofboyl- ing, and thereby ycildcd that all the foul rncttals may be turned one into another, and Silver- i ike wife into Gold; becaufeit i* nothing clle but imptrfeft GolJ, and the worftr part thereof , warning nought but colour which eafie and a little clofenefs , which t y pSTging out the greafie food of fie may -..be; given him ; yet fcr all this, he ricnys if. pciffible to change any of the low- tr metrals into c thcrSJ or Luna, becaufe of our fuddain heat (/« lfaid) of Mars and Vtws bang burnt they cannot be brought totbe : ro!d Mercurhl tlcarncfs, nor yet be m*de abfdirg nor ftedfafi in the fl e. 32. ThUhe would never have faid if he had teen brought up in this our trade of Learn- Lib.?. the Holy Gride. \ 8 5 Learning, h« mould have feen us cafic]" lead thcmcttals back from whence th;y all came, and then, by means aforr(aid Hay them; for, he grants himftlf thai all ihc caufc of unclofenefs , unftedfaftn-fs and wafting in the fire , is thac our faty Brim- ftone, and that it maybe c!e?.nfedoiK of Silver; why not out of the reft al Co ? will they not abide the violence/ net at fin'*, but by little 2nd little they will, as gentle and wife men know how to ufe then , there are others a'fo as well as he , Eranits andfuchLke, that deny this artoF chang- ing ; if I thought thofemen needed any la- bour of reproof , who through ignorance of the points they handle, blundtr and ru(hin thcdaik, crofs, and reprove tbem- felvci , all about in fuel, fo:t as they Kem rather to move pitty to the ftandei s ty, ctxcfi to make a challenge, and to call forth an adverfary. Then fu:h men I will exhort to be better advilcd, by the view of ccrtaia plain examples which i will lay down be- fore them, and thereby with them , to (Ly their over C\»Ut and fore running judge- ments, until they com; to the tryai and battel it felf, in thit which fhalt fojio which I know not how foannointed and armed himfelf, I mean his face and hands , as he could fuffer to wafh them in molten Lea;*. 33. Another time I was in Arabia, and from thence failed to the Rock^called Alexan- der, and further to Anjalerne and Cbrifte upon Euphrates 3 in the year one thoufand fix hundred fifty and two; about May I met Hentet Obdeloh and the Akades amongft ma- ny wonderful things , this I faw , one who durft. oppofe his naked body to the violence of a Bullet (hot from a Musket ; and this na- turally hisflemwas hardened by a charm. Why may not then byiheGme example a tougher and harder Mettai be more eafily armed and fenced againft all force and vio- lence. 34. In my Orient at Travels, you may read of the events ia nature experienced, and again to be experienced by my felf ; nay j you fhali ft c more wonders by thcjkill of j nature eafily performed , clear Cbryftal Javts. the cloth that is wrapt about it from the rage of the fire , jo doth oyl defend fa}er 3 in fo much that yon may boil Eifb therein , v ithout either burning LlB.?. the Holy Guide. 187 burning the paper , or the oil foaking through* and all this is becaufe the txcream and dead- ly fewds do fave the middle thing by their working. Is it then a wonder, if Iron or Copper be by forae pretty Height , or kindly skill defended from all fire , and made lure and fledfaft. 35. To draw nearer unto you ^ ic is ve- ry well known that bafc and unripe Gold y fit oncly for Tolefmes when it is, fee my Kofte Crucian infallible Axiomata y lib. 1. in the Preface ; as it were a mean between Sil- ver and Gold, wanting colour and clofe- nefs , wafting much away in time of proof and tryal, may by fomeof the lefTer and and lower degrees of binding, be refined and made as good as the beft gold in the world ; then is there any let in reafon, why the reft, cfpecially Silver, by ftr. ng and more forcible means may not be bound and coloured and reach perfection. 36. Now before I travel further, it is firft necciTary to prevent the delufionsof theMountebankcs of London, and in other plates; and lee you know thetrmfi chat you be not deceived by thoO: that pretend to have Auxuwpotabile , and thofeexperhn- fed Medicines Madam Beata taught me , as you may fee in the Preface and Chap, 12. of my firft book of the Harmony of the world. None hath thefe true Philofophkal Med>- Fi 4 cincsj 188 The Holy Guide. Lib. 5 ciiv.c8,(but Eugenius IbeodidaGuj^nd Doctor Cuheppers widdovv) imagined to be attain- ed Dy the ftudics of one Dr. tfkb: Culpepper who learned of me 5 'tis truth Nicholas Cvl- pepper was a friend, but not a Mafter to the Golden experienced Medi-ines. But to undeceive you , the Poft-Uoftors and pre- tenders err, andinfteadof Potable Gold, the Fanarea Pantaiva which is the cjuintc- fencc/.f.and tin&ure of GoId>e^c. have gi- ven to run an impure Calx of Gold, not confidering the difference and evil that fol- lows upon ic; Gold Calcined or powdered, if it be given to men, is githcrcd intD one lurnpe in the ftomaek, and does no good to the patient, it guilds the bowels and ftomaek , and binders the conco&ion, whence many and various fickneffes follow, and at length death it felt; i were going ?t the finishing hereof into Italy which I left for healch (ake^c. Take no Mettallack Ar- canum or Medicine into your body , unlefc it be firfi made volatile, and it be reduced into no mettal. The beginning to pre- pare potable Gold is this; (o may fuch a volatile be afterwards diffolvcd in (pirit of Wine, that both may a(cend together aid be made volatile inseparable, and as you prepare Gold , fo may you alfo prepare potable Luna y Mercury, Partus, Mars, Jufiier, &;ic5 Satyr ne j it is hard to learn without rjra&ke LiB.$. T x he Holy Guide. 189 pr2&ice and a teacher. But to return to our purpofe, and to conclude if we may bytradng and diligently perfuing the foot • fteps of nature, which (he tread th daily, turn and plant of wight into a ftone, and minerals into a mettal, and Lead into Tin, nay Lead in o Copper ( as I will prove hereafter) withfogrcit exchange £and tn- crcafe of center and cloffenefg; then tell me why by means fitted in proportion , Lead, or rather Copper may not be turned into Silver, or cither, of thefe efpecial.y Silver into Gold. 37. Therefore 10 make up all far acelle reoorts for certain , that in Corintbia they ijj c mmonly turn Copper into Silver, and this into Gold in Hungary , though he names not the means whereby they made thofc exchanges , yet we may c^liiy judge thole way*, ot binding and colouring fee down before, that is , JefTtrr ways then Hermes Medicine ) and yet fuffident to ferv? ourturn, and to rjife that wealth app^ini ted, as we may fee by gutfs of their com- mon practice, which fife were empty, vain, and foolim , as aLoby the light change cf middle minerals in reipeft of the riturn and giin of gold, And if the praife of an enemy be lightly true and uncorrupt, 1 t us here what Poetus a denyer of the Arr of ficrmes confeflethupon his ownexperience; that 3 oo The Holy Guide. L1B.3- thai Qjkkfilver may be diicrs ways bound and coloured and made perfect Gold and Silver 5 and on may when ic is with Brim- ftone burnt and made Cinaber very gainful- ly ( which thing Joannes Cbrifipus found true) and further that in his due time and place Mercury by the fmoak of Brimslone . within one moneth will be turned into per- fect Luna. I might prefs you with more as ^ood proofs and tryal of men of credit, but here is enough , I fay to flay your judgement for a while , let us go for- ward. CHAP. XIX. 1 The two guards if fafety 9 Wifdom ^ and Vertue^ to the Soul and body , with other wonderful truths expe- rienced andpubl/JIied by good Authority. i. Will and diligence : 2. Of the difference of Sapience and prudence : 3. Of the mind and foul: 4. Earthly Judges : 5. Of the fer°. vants of [cuts and fpirits . 6. Mtjfengers of fpirits : 7. The pown of fpirits in receiving fbapes: 8- Motion of the fpirits and mem- bers : o, That the Mibtr carrietb the foul and J.1B.3. 7 be Hoi) Guide. qoi and all bis beams down into the body : i o The excellency of man: n. T6? nature of Age, and)outb in cold and hot Countries : i 2. Of Stars and Prophets: 13. 7bat abeafimay put on manly nature : 14. Of a Mole : i^.Of the decrees vf Nature : 16. Of the caufe and cure of Kind : ij.To mend man in nine or ten off- fating*. 18. The nature of Parents : 19. Of difeajts and Leaprofie : 20. Wit and madnefs : 21. 7 he caufe of foolifh bo- dies and the Mixture . 22. The caufe of Ver- tue : 23. 7he caufe of manners : 24. Of the Will and mind of man and Stars ; 2 5 .Of the pi ice of the Sun, Air^ and food : 16. Of the Poles of the world: 27. Pepper turned into Ivy ; 28. 7be caufe of diftempers ; 29. the cauje of monfirous children : 30 7he caufe of Madnefs: 31. 7he caufe of joy or fear : 32: How to temper the heart and liver: 33. Of that proceedeth fnm the heart and liver.^&c. YOu have fan now happincfs, know- ledge, long life, health, \outh, plea- fure, and are difpatched, and we have got fuch a goodly quire of helps, inftrument*, andmeons, to wifdom and venue, that is to perfeft health and haopinefs ; whit is wan- ling, but will and diligence, to bring all wen unto it, unlefs there be fome as there be many, fo lude and fond by birth and na- ture. 200 The Holy Guide. LlE.g. ture, haying their difference deuced, and being fo far from their kind cftranged unto the kind of beafts, that although they lack not thefe helps ard furnitures, no nor good will and indeavourto fet them for- ward , yet all will not fcrw to m*nd tnern and bring them to wit and goodnef*. Then let ui feek the falves for thefe two forest likcwife that we may make it at laft a whole and perfect pleafureand happiness; let us, 1 fay, bend our fclvcj to (hew the means, How all foul and vitioas \>erfons may be cured and brought to health of minde ( which is wit and goodnefs } no cure can be skilfully performed , without the caufe to be firft known and removed; th- caufe of wifdem and vertue^ and fo of their contraries (for one of thefe do bewray another) 1 opened htntofore when I brought into the bound and honmold of wife men or Rofie Cru- cians , that two oth gers,e^c. 3. And ifin this difcourfc of theminde (as well as in the former of the foul , and fome other ) I call in again the beji Fkilofo- piberj, and make them abide the brunt , I hop- you will not blame me in a courfe ever blamclefsand allowed in matters of fuch weight, both that the truth might be the better bolted out , and the man warded with a charm againft the (hoi: of envy. 4. There- 104 The Holy Guide* LiB.$ 4. Th-refore leting pafs thefc earthly Judges as Areftoxenus Vidarchus , Pliny and Gdlenejlsjwho rating the mind c as an earth- ly thing, do judge it to dye and to be clean razed out with the body, and all other wrong; opinions with the fame mind; old Pfylofopbyand RofieCxuciansQuhztt it is beft advifed) hold and teach , that as the foul and life of all things is all one with it felfj and all the odds fprings from the divers tempers of the bodies,fo the divine and inn mortal mind proper unto man , and Author of mfdom and venue, to be wife and a like- wife, and one and the fame in all points, in all men, as God from whom it came, is ene and wife J and to differ when it is divided, and fentintofundry places, Evenas many rivers pajfing through many grounds, of fundry qncthties do lightly every one takg a fundry taint, fmaks and nature fom the ground, though at firft they all fprung and ftawed from one foun- tain or head, or more fitly like as there are innumerable kindes of lights in the world, differing to the feat* and houfcs that receive them, when the light of the Sun from whence they all revive light , is of it fclf all one tnd the fame in all places. Then as the Su » (think not much if I be (Till driven to likes, becaufe it is the lightfomeft way of delivering divine things, wherein you fee" me plunged; for as the eye can behold all things iTi B.5. The Holy Guide. 305 things buc her fell and the Sun , andchofe it cannot fee but in another thing fie to re- prefent the figure , even fo the minde can- not underftand her fclf, nor yet other di- vine matters, fo well as in a like and com- parifon) as the Sun, I fay , of himfelf ever Ihineth, and feeth all things if his beams be nor ftopt with a cloud or fome other thick imbarcment, even fo, the minde alone,and before me fall into the cloud of the body, is ever bufie and likewife knowcth all thing?, as unto fo divine a thing bdongeth, but now (he is fo intangted and darkened in this manner, (he isfometimes idle 3 and never feeketh all things yea nought at all , with- out the leave and help of the body. 5. This courfe therefore (he now taketh, fith (he may not her feif ftep forth and range abroad, to fee things, (he craves and takes the help of the foul and his fervants, which they call beams^cr (pints; fitft (he tifeth the outward fpirits that fie in ths edge and border of the body for mefTengers to re- ceive (by means of [heir inftrumeiits , the parts where they lodge ) and bring in tid- ings, that is (hews and (hapes of things,and then the inward beam fitting in the brain, takes the lame tidings andreprefent them, as it were in a glafs ; before her, that (he may caft her light (which they call the dif- fering or receiving minde) upon thtm and fee 204 T h e Ho b Guide. L 1 B . 5 ice them to skip over the known fine 5 in- ward wits which we have fnot unfitly J compared to a glafs, are divided into Tun- dry and (tvcral feats and officts. Firft one fort called , thought inhabiting thefore- pai t of the br )in,tak( s,holds, and reprcfer ts the fhapes, Lt in at the windows of the fine outward {enas; then another crew which me CdllrvPncrobrance, keep the hinder part of thchead, receive h ftill thofe fhapes in great plenty, and laycth them up as It were in a ftorthoufe , untill . firft the third com- pany of the fouls and fpirits called com- mon knee, and fitting in the midle of the brain (as becomes a judge) calleth for them to when the heat of the fpirits ferving wit, is either loaden with the clogging fumes and breaths oftheftomack, cr fpent with labour, or with fwcat,and ftiil beholding, (Tor reft a< bates heat, as 1 ever faidj or elfc lent for time, unto his fellow-fervants.the fpirits life, for the digeftion fakc;thcn the fpirits of! the brainc be (till and quiet, and outward and inward fences, wit and underftanding all ceafe at once : But if the meat (to omit the expencc of heat) was neither much,nor of an heavy and ckgingkinde, and fo nei- ther breathing out leading fiufl^ nor need- ipf Lib. 3. The Holy Chide. 207 ing foraisn help to digeft it, then our pc - c ivinp fpirics begin to take thnr own and rta r ur II agiin unto them, and to move a little before the minde, whereby (he be hol- df th foni? old fhipes and l"ruws of things in their palling, which is called dreaming. But in ca(e 1 hey recover all that heat, they be- ftirr themfelves apace, running to the out- fide of the body, and bringing back new tydings to theminie, which when (he perceiveth, is calhd waking. Then the caufe cf wifdomc is dear at laft a 8 we fee, to wit a clear and ilirringglafle, and of folly when the fame is foul and'ftill. If the gbffe be fouled dl over,it cauteth na- tural! or willing folly, as in fools, chil- dren, or drunkards $ but if ic be but here and there befmeared, and drawn as it were with darkc ftrokes and lines of foule hu- mouis, the (hapes appearcto the minde, e- ven as the formes appcares in a broken glafs to the eye by halfet and confufedly, and ic maketh madneffe. 9-But how come the fpirits of this inward glafs fo foul & flow, when they are of them felves(as becometh the beams of a heavenly fouljboth veryclean,clear,quiek and lively? But we need fay no more, but cleare and foule abovc,when thefe two qualities make or marc the whole work of perceiving; for if the fpirits be cleare, it is a figoe they are Gg 2 in 3 08 the Holy Guide. Lib.:; in the'r own nature, and fo whole & quick withal', but if ihcy be foulc, it is a token their whole condition and property is lofl ami gone, and To that ftillnefs is come up« on tnern alfo , neither is that /Ethefeall thin^wnich is called by the name of a fpirit; thncarrieth the foul and all his bcarrcs down in the body and breakcth ( as ! faid above ) between them , foul or flill of it ftlFs (f° r rpWits are not as fomc leaches think;!, mads of but feed with the breaths of our meat J but very fine, cleanc, and lively* as aft men grant of iE'.hsr; how then ? muft it n6t needs follow that all the caufc of faile and want in tits cafe, fpiingcth from the body, and from that part cfpecially, where the wits in ha bite? 10. If the waked rcafon brought in byi Tbeodidadus above will not ferve to content this matter, let us Lad him forth clad withi proof ofrcye'jfighc ?nd experience, the p!ai- ntft/greateft, moilfi ling and rr oft fatiMy- ing rcafon in the world. If man alone doth pafTea'l other wigh 8 in wict, for his Aery an j Firev temper above thei» 3 as we heard before, then if one man goeth bek re ano- ther in w'tt, it muft needs follow, from the fame iaufe; Now as Ayre and Fire are chare and quick,when Eai th and Water fbcp and doating difeafes ; Nature her fclf is the fame to difperfc in her due time and feafon, Lib. 5. 1 he Holy Guide. 211 icafon.and fcoureoutal the fouleand clog- gy cold and ,g r ofle hum ours which over- whelme the fpirk^and nuke them Unclean and qu cr ; or at leaft in the ranker fort of them, as in doating difcafes fhe may be hol- pcneafily, and enabled by little skill to do it ; that we may judge , if great and ftrong and mighty means of Arc chanced once to jovn with nature,the rank-ft of al, and dee- peft rooted, That is , Naturall fclly it fcif n>ay be rooted out and difpatched. 13. But you may reply as fome dc^that the reft, which fprung out from outward light, and hang by caufes, may be cured, when this being fo rooted in nature,and firft mixture of the feed (a mixture as ill as a beaftly mixture) can never be mended, un- lcfTe we grant that a beaft may be holpen alfo and put on manly nature. I had need fend you back to the degrees of kindc , al- lotcd and bounded out above 5 by theCoun- fell of Philofophers, whereby you may fee ifyou confider well, that a bcaft ftanding in a lower fteep and kindeof mixture, can in no cafe be bettered and made man , un- lefie that his temper be marred nrft&made a new, and fo his life being put out and ra- zed, when as a foolifh man hath no fuch caufe and reafon, being both for his divine minde (though it beeclipfed, with thcflia- dow of an earthly body) and in refpeft of Gg 4 , his a 1 4 The Holy Guide. LlB. 3 his temper a degree above a beaft; and in the ftateand condition of nnnkindc, fire a- boundingin him as his fhape declares, as well as in other men though not To much, and in the fame point and meafurc. 14. And what is the caufc> not becaufe, Nature meant it fo, but reafon or nature was let and hindred by fome crofs thing lay in her w*y,within the fluff, wh«reby(hc was driven to %ay and mifle and come fhort of hcrpurpofc: like as the Mole, as Ariflotle faith for all her blindneffc, is in the fame kinde with all other whole and perfect wights , which mould have all their wits and fences. 15. Becaufe having all the parts of an eye whole and perfefr, it is a iignc that Nature went to hav- gone forward, and waslejr with the barr of a groflTe and thick skin. Now then we fee the faile and errors of k : nde by ikiJ daily corrected; yea and fo»e hold ©pinion that the blemifh in the Mole may be wafhed out and amended alfo: That we may hold it pofllble to do the like in this fault of fol!y,nay we may think it more eafy then ibme of them, becaufe there is na feverall purpofe, which feemeth fo in the work of the Mule ; But fome odd and rare examples, as k were monfters in kinde, or more &Ij di (cafes left by nature , defcent, and Lib. 3. The Hal) Guide. 2 1 3 andinhericance, fpring out from fomcill temper of the Pa ref ts. 16. But how may this difeafe be cured? all things in kinde bv the courfc of kinde, have both their hightft and deepeftpitch and end, and as it were their South and North turns, fromwhence thryftill rcturnc and go back again, to avoid Infinity. 17. So thefe ruturall and laft difeafe?, have their race which they rua and fpend bylijjle and Utile; when it is all run , and the flock of Corruption fpen, C which is within nine or ten off-fpringa) then they mend andreturne to health again; fuch is theraceof wifdomcalfo, and of health cf body; for the health of the roinde, i* inclo- fed within that other, as we fee by the chik dren, which wife men beget, and fo fonh; the caufe is plain and eafy. 18. Then we fee in this matter, how na- ture inclines, and is ready to hold her felf • and if Art would ltnd her hand, we may think the cure would be much more fpcedy, and many parts of the time cutofFanda- batcd ; and as we find in fores and othci lighter inward hurts, this done by fligru meant of (lender ekil, fo we may deem that: by more mighty means , more great and migrty deeds may be performed ; but whae do 1 fetch about the mat tcr, when it is above ^8 1 think fufficicntly proved , that all Icfc Lcaproii*8 3f4 The Holy Guide. LiB.g, Leprofies, and oth'r natural diicaksof the body, by thofe heavenly and Mineral Me- dicines (which I call the Cure-alls and Curc*the-great)may re quite cleanfed and driven away $ and this among i he number of leaft and natural difezfes, all fprung out from an ill temper of the feeds of pa- rents > 19. And to omit the red 3 if theLepro- fie flowing ijam the foulnefs of the blood of all the body, may be cured; murh more this which proceeds from the frame of one part oncly , that is , from a muddy brain ; or if that difcafc may be faid to come from one pare alone,? hat is the Livcr f becaufi it is the maker of all blood, yec that one Is a moil dangerous part if it be ill-afTe&ed , becaufe by need of nature, it fends to all places,and (o reacheth through all y. and ftriketh all by contagion , whereas the brain as other more keep themfelveg wuhin their bounds , and ftretch no far- ther. 20. But let us go further , if good fine temper through all diet and paflions of the foul, hath often failed from a good wir, to a kind of madnefs, fcarce to be defcried from the ftate of an Ideot;then fure through frhc contrary caufe, a foul frame may be cleared and rafe wiidom, by as good rea- fon as the Art of rcafonhath any? efpeci- ally Lib. 3. The Holy Guide. ai 5 ally if tho ft contrary plTior 8 and dyct be hojprn and (a forwards by meetMcdicines, which tic Grctiim know and teach , and wherewith they m^ke great changes in mc? s bodies; but without all doubt and qus~ ftion, if that our mod fine, cear, and whole Egyptian Cure-all come in place to help the matter ; for if the, mi^hiyer enemy ihill in fight overcome the weaker fas vou all grant, and thereon ftandsjpur Phyfick) then dull failing finenefs and clearnefs, when itarifcthin the body like the Sun in, the morning > fcattcr and put to fl ght all mifls and darknefs, clearing and (couring mighrily by his matchlefs heat , ftrengtk and fwiftnef?, every part of the body, 2 1 . Neither (hall you fay, life will fuffer no fuch violent and forcible dealing, when as life it felf (hall do it; for what is that •which made and mingled at firft the foolifti body, buca beam of heavenly fire carried on a Couch of JEiberl and what is this our heavenly Medicine but the fame as is a- bove fhewn at large 5 then let us put fame to lame, flrcngth toftrength; and if one before was too weak to break as it would and mingle the fond body finely § now both together, one helping another, and ftill with f rtfh fupply renewing thebattail, ftiali be I think able to overcome the work, and at laft to bring it to the wifticdend, pafs ai6 The Holy Guide. L1B.3. pafs and per'e&ion. If you flye to the laft hole and (hifc , and fay that time is now paft, and occafion of place and ftuffc now loft, and flips away, being too hard for na- ture upon fo hird a fluff and place to work iuch exchanges ; if you look to her ordina- ry race in ail things, you (hall feet-hat (he is able , and doth daily frame, rule and fquarc very grofs and unmctt fluff in rnoft unfit places u> our thinking, yea much more then thetc in this work ; and not on- ly the thick and fturdy ftuffe of Miners , cleaning the works (yet in unfecn plac s) down to the bowels of the ground; and the grofs and rude g ar in the bottom of the fea to make (hell-fifo, but alfo living, mov- ing , and perceiving land wights 5 in the clofe rocks (as you heard before ) and in the cold Snow and burning fire, as thofe worms and flyes in Ariflotk. To clofe up and end th's matter at once ; if you remem- ber h_>w this our heavenly Cure-all, when he was fent into the body to work long life, health, and luftinefs , did not onely (hike and kill, and put out of being all foul and grofs diftempers, his own and our enemies, but alfocherifh, nourim and feed our bodies, and bring it towards our own nature ( even as far as we would by difpofiag of the qiulity ) you may eafily conceive the plain and certain way of this great Li B.3. The Holy Guide. 2 1 7 great exchange when you know his mod clean, fine, clear, and lightfomc Na- ture. 22. Now I have difpatched the firft part of Phyfick , not as fome have pretended, but even to God himfelf, Ictus goto the fecond} and becaufe we have not done it before, though we talked much thereof, we will now begin to bound the matter , and make venue (as Arhtotle and truth tcachethus)a mean in outward deeds and dealings with other men ; or a reafoa in manners and conditions , as Plato termctb it, all is one; the caufe of vertue is like- wife fct forth in the beginning , to wir,a temperate body^ but I left the proof unto this place, which is all the hardnefs in this cure of lewdenefs ; for if it be once known that temperatenefs is the caufe of vertue, we (hall eafilyby that temperate medicine, fo notable in the fpee^h going before^ pur- chafe and procure the fame ; and why that is fo, it hath fo oftw from the body; and if the inw ard fpi- rirs and wits I'kewife do nought without the inftruments of the body, and follow the affc&ion and difpofition of the fame, the appetite of the unreafonable foul, com- mon between u« andbeafts ( upon which Ariftoile and his heirs do lay the caufe of manners ) is difpatched alfo, and all the whole ftream muft needs clearly run from the body. 25. But let fome old danger come & fhake thefe old Grounds, which you faw the Phi- lofophers lay fo long agoe,and fo this buil- ding might fall and tumble, I will fhore it up with experience a thing moftfittofill and pleafc the fence of them which have no thing el fe but fence. As all difeafcs,fo all manners fpring, ei- ther from the naturall and inherited, or from the purchafed temper of the body; to keep the firft till anon; this we have either from the ayrc and foyle where we live, or from the meat which we take; the Ayre fol- lowcth cither the place of theSun or the na- ture of the ground; but this is fome what too hard and thorny a kind of tcaching;lec us enlarge our felvcs, and unfold and prove how a 3 o The Holy Guide. Lib. $ how (though I Shewed the manner at large before) the ayre and meat alters and chan- gcth and makes to differjthe bodies firft,and fo the manners rude and fierce. 26. All ftarmen and Philofophcrs (no otherwife then we fee by proof j hold op r - nion, that where the fun is either too ncarc the people, or right over ths , or too farr off, as under the two pitches of the world, there the bodies arc bigg and flrong and the manners rude and fierce ; whereas withia the two temperate girdle! of the earth, they keep a mean and hitt the midft, as they Cay, both in body and manners. To comedown to the ground(for Imuft be fhort) we fee that a fat and foggy land makes the blood and f pi) its thick and grofs and thereby dull and flow, and fo the men fond in wit and rude and fimple, faithfull, chaft, homftand ftill in that ftraine of man- ners-, whertas a barren and dry ground, if jthe fun be temperate therewithal I (a* at Rome and Athens} makcih the fame thin andcl^are and. lively, fubtill and dcccitfull mcn,valiant,unchaft , and fo forth of alio* iher proper eyes appertaining. For meat, manners in men are like the vertues and proper tides in plants, following both the fundry tempers of the body es,whcn the foul in th-'m, and the minde in us is one in all. 27. Then as the mixtures, qualityes and vcrcues LlB.J. The Holy Guide. 23 1 ^ vcrtues in plants, are alterd up and down according to their food and (utterance, as (to omit the outward nourifhment of the ground;) whereby Peper brought out of Calicut into Italy, will after a few fettings ttirneintolvy andfuch like ; the caufe is plain; a cunning Gardner either by ftecping the feed or flip, or better by inclofiog in the rootorftock, can give to any p'ant any colour, tafte, fmcll or power of healing : e- ven fo the tempers of mens bodyes^and con- dition of their Manner?, change to and fro upon the fame occafion. 28. To let go that hold in phyfhk,that di- ftemperd meats do bread the likediftcrnpes in thofc famous humours which make com* plexions , and their conditions; why are the Tartarian Co beaftly and barbarous in manners, but becaufe Cbefides their (oyle ) they eat and drink the fltfh & blood ofHot- fes? We fee the Iflandersof Corfica prove as bold, cruel & falft: as doggs,v\hofcfle{h they cat:a man may range farr in this field ;but Igc us draw near home; it is not without caufe that Plutarch, Plato, and other frrave znd wifePhilofophers, give fo ftraight charge of the care ana heed in the choyce of Nur- fes. 29. hit not like,nay in their opinion terrain, that the child fucks in with their milk their outward fhape and inward manners? why Hh not? 212 The Holy Guide. Lib. 3' not? as well as beafts that fuck of ftran- gers out of kinde, do plainly draw unto thfm moth of their unkindly qualities; as appears by the foals in Africa, which by fucking Camels, are made more painfull then their kinde, fwift and healthful! for it;.j and enough fuch like examples might be brought, if time would fuffcr; to come to our bodies left us by our pjrentf, if we fee manners ingrafted and imbred in flocks, kindred , and children and nephews fUil! dowfl^to take one after another a Jong timei by kindc and nature, as that curfedfatherj bearing kindred, fet down in Ari^otie, and other pilfering flocks, which though they have no need, muft needs fleal; to let pafle lechery, valour, and other good &bad qua* litks, which we fee daily defcend and raincj on kindreds, whence are thefc > not from the parents mindesandoff-fpring, nor can be left and ingraffed , but muft returnej ftraight and whole, & all at once when they flit out of this life to that heavenly place from whence they came: Neither are all their wits alike framed by ufeand cuflomc, but brought up fomecimes contrary, 30. Therefore to cut off the giddy reel- ling drunken opinion as a firing too much difcording, thofe manners fpringout from (the parents (ccds 9 which is a part of their bodys;purchafcd by meat and nouriftimcnt, which Lib.?. 1 he Holy Guide. 22$ which bodycs if they u(c good and tempe- rate dyet, arc ever like the firft; otherwise they follow the Nature of the meat* , and of their diftcmpers,at Cardan in a few of the worft dyetSjhath aioft notably markcd,that drunken,or over ftudious or too great fad- ings large onyon-cacing parents do beget and bring forth, for the moft part, mad and frantick children. 3 1* To clofc up all this firft part, with this one little proof at once; if wefinde our fclvcsto do many things againft our will, as when a fairc thing is offered , our hearts pant and faile with fean when a faire luft and his part will arife , whether we will or no, andallincontinency fprings from that root, then furc the body muft lay this force upon us. But how is this > and which way doth the body fo violently over-rule and carry away the will and miadc after her } when any (hape appears in the thought of man, > the doing and minde takes it ft rength (we muft wears thefe words with ufe, and make them foftcrj laying it with good or bad^ and matching and comparing all things, degree! and determines ; and then her will 1 and rcafon which Flato piaceth in the headj ; follows and dcfi.es : but at the fame time fteps in another double will and appetite ! fen t from that unrcafonablc and perceiving Hh 2 feul, 2*4 the Holy Guide. L1B.3 fou7,whtch is common between us & beafts, and*fitting one part in the heart, and denre- ing outward goods of the Body, and look wnichofttak is ftronger, that is, which hath the ftronger houfe,cithei by defcent or purchafe, (or c}fe bafer mould, be ftill the weokr, and obey thebetterj that prevails and mows the ipirits unto it, and thofc the finenefT j and thofe again by other miJ- die mean?, the whole body or part thereof, asisthepleafure of that Commander. 3 2. Wherefore to f come to the point more fully, we (hall never be good and follow vcr tuc, that is mean and reafon in our de-< fires and doings, before thefe two pan s, the heart and the liver, be firft by kinde, and thenbydyetin order, fquareand temper, apt to obey the laws and rules of reafonjfor to begin with the root , if the heart be vejy hotandmoyft, the man is ccuragious and liberal , defireing honour and great cut^ ward things; if hortanddry, cruel, a nv gry, deceitfull; but if it keep a mean, o* s § btyeth reafon in that kinde of manner; for tihe liver if it be hot and moid, like wife it followeth vsnery and gluttony ; if hot and dry, it doth thefame, but crookedly & out of courfi^ but if it be cold and dry,the man is very chad and abftinent ;- and if cold and rooyftfcimewhar chaft & abftincnr, but out- wardly : whereas a temperate liver holds a ifcB.g . iht Holy Guide. 225 mean in both, and following the race of kindedefircs to live fobcily in company and honcftly in mai riage,a life as tarr from Monkes and Hermits as gluttons and letch- crs. 33. Wherefore we fee thitall manners proceed from the temper of thofe two parts fnay perhaps undemanding alfo, if it varyeth ftill according to the divers heats and moyfturc iD the bodysjfo tint all gcoi manners and all vcrtue budd forth frcm the goodjcquall & middle temper and mi - tare of the farce parts ; and all our labour and travell fir we feek vertuc) muft be to bring thofe twaine into fquare and temper, thai is equality a* near as may be of the foure qualities * not only by the Phllofc- phicall falve of ufc and cuftome, f though TlaU hits it right in his time, as when he will have no man ludc by his will, and therefore not tobebhmed but through his by-ufe or nature ill difpofed) but raiherby good dyee a aj)d by right Phyft k efpecially. And thus we have n laft finimed thefe parts, wherein we mean to prepare the mindebothof the common and learned p^o* plr, and to make the way to the truth of Herme$ Medicines. Thus have we proved our way to happi- nefle, knowledg, long life, health, youth, kleiTcdneffc , wife and vertue, plain and Hh 3 cafyj 22 6 7he Holy Guide. Lib. 3. eafy* let us next paflcth unto th* Golden creafurcs of nature > and the method cf the Holy Guide. ths end of the third Eooh^ ^ ■11 1 1 ~ ■ 11 HOLYGVIDE Leading the Way to The Golden Treafures of Nature. How all may be happy in this world* Enoch and LlUis knowledge of the Mindc and Soul. Eugcmtts. Tbcodidaftiis his diicovery of the manner and matter of the Philofopheis Vmtcirva-> or Anontagius, and the man- ner of working CanonicaUy and orderly made maniteft in the feCrets of Nature and^'/t, by which Pbilofopty is refloied. That Anontagius will tranfmute Tin, Iron, or Copper into Silver and Gold, with what advantage ycuwill. ThetRofie Crucian Seraphical Speculations and Gamatbes^nd how to extract the Soul IJ of Gold, and put it to another Body. That Gold may be wrought into a fine Oyl , and tranfmutcd into Gold again. How to make the Bmbmans Medicine that cures all difeafes, A manuel experiment, difcovered and communicated to the World By Join Hey don Gent. $>/* hy opos, ^ Servant of God, and a Secretary of Nature. ^nE^tf tup ajnt^na nuann miWi wttfon Si no* ego mlbi 3 ({ins mlbl ? ' & cum ego mibimet iffh #*'<* £ l 9 ? LONDON. Printed by X.M. 1662. To my honoured friend Mr. Robert Richardfon Citizen and Merchant Adventurer of London i . All Cosleftial and Terreftial happincfs be wifhed. SIR, Following the Vath of the Rofie Crucians , // is my ambition to let the world know why it is that 1 do ef* f e daily honor men 5 it is not Sir as they are high born heirs of the great Poten- tates^ for which moti honor them ( and upon which account 1 alfoJ/:all not deny them their due ) but as they excel in bo- ne fly > and are friends to the Fraternity of R. C. That poor Philofophers fhould take no delight in Riches, and . Rich men fhould take great delight in Philofophy , is to me an Argument that there is more delight, honor, and fatis- fatisfa&ion in the one then in the other. Have you not heard of a Nobleman s Porter that let in all that were rich apparelled, but excluded a poor Phi- lofo pher f But Jfiould if I had been in his. place % have rather let inthePhiJo- fopher without the gay cloaths> then the gay cloaths without the Philofopher, As long as I 'have fen ft andreafonjfoall improve them to the honor of Arts, in the perfeUion thereof there are long life i health, youth> riches, honor, pleafure, wifdom and vertue 5 By Art Aretefius lived a thouf and year s^ Des Cares knew all things paft, prefent or to come .• By Art Elias raifed the dead, Jofhua made the Sun ftand (till, and Mofes with Aurum Potabile healed the peo- ple. %y thefe Arts yon may command Lead into Gold, dying plants into fruit- fulnefsjhejick into healthy old Age into youth , darkpefs into lights a month would fail me to give you an account of their power $ but you may read them in The Rofie Crucian Infallible Axi- omes, and in our boohjcalled The Har- mony mony of the world, and in our Tem- ple of Wifdom. 'Now for the effecting of this - 9 letmeadvife you to read well all my books , there ym will find my Mifirefs 9 fie is a Virgin^ and a mother of children 5 court the mot her and you will win 'the daughter 5 prevail with nature 9 and the fair Beata is at your fervice } it is pity there is fuch great encouragement for many empty and unprofitable Arts % and none for thefe and fuch like ingenui* ties 9 which if promoted would render an Vniverfity far more* flounfhing them any in the world % but I never expeBto fee fuch dayes in this Kingdom^ titlflja- dows vanifo 9 and fub fiances flour i/b 7 truth prevail, and The fraternity of the Rolie Crofs dif cover themfelves to us 9 which time 1 hope is at hand > and de fired by all true Artifis, and to my knowledge especially by yourfelf 9 upon which ac- count I truly honor you. 'Now to your felf therefore I crave leave to Adumbrate this part of the Art which 1 know you will be willing to promote for the pub life good. I Dedicate this Treatife toyou 9 not that that it is worthy your acceptance 9 but that it may receive worth by your accepK ingof it. I prefent it to you (as men bring Lead to the Philofophers to be tinged into Gold) to receive the ftampe of your favor and approbati- on 9 that it may pafs currant with an ac- ceptance amongfi the Rofie Crucians! Aftrologers, Geomancers, Aftrono^ <| mers i Philofophers and Phyficiansj whereby you wiUoblige % Sir, London March 1 5. Your moft affe&ionate 1662. friend and fervanc fohnHeydon* LiB4* The Holy Guide. *&? HW ttftf ttff* & «fc> j»t)U^f^t«^ 2& 2& 285 2&S #5 g& $»& TC C$t <3& Book IV. CHAP. I. How to Change, alter. Cure and amend thefiate of Mans Bo* dy y when nature makes it deformed. j . Of the Compofttions of man : 2. The dore of Light: 3. Order of (feech: 4. Of Hermes Medicines and other things* 5. That an ounce of Gold in a year mil makg a Medicine as the Philofof hers (lone: 6. Of the fonof Gold. 7. Of the heavenly vertue of Wights: 8.0/ Creating Mice and other things: 9. Of the learns of Heaven : 1 o . OJ Cdeftiall faints in Minerals : 1 1 . the force of Heavenly fpi» rits: 12 Envious Leeches: 13. Of Stones y Zrockifcs, Pills, Elefiuaries, Nile Water and Qtber things ; 14. Of the vertue of calcined {details The Holy Guide. LlB.4 ■ Mtttalls in Fbyfick, andChirurgery : 15. Of tbejecretVertue of minerals: j6. Of diffol- ved Gold and raw G&ld y and other things: 17. Of our fijt Nature: 18. Oftheperfetl- ing of the minde and body: 1 9. Paracelfus Opinion, and of Voyjon* *• ""^^QyOufeehow we have mown* 1 heretofore in the JxioMataJib.%. £~S divers wayes to our Guide to bap- pineffe, &c. and fhndry roe ins whereby the wholckinde of men may come to the know- lcdpof the Compofition of man, and of the infilling dc, and of the power of the foule being (tpara- ted from the body, at the command of the fpirit, and how it becomes like the heavens, and of the vertucs of the minde and foul and how God wonderfully work* efTcfts in the imagination, and what is the firft matter of all thingSt Yet in truth they arc all by long and comber fome ways, fit rather to put them in minde of a better way (which was the drift of .that purpofe) then to be gone and travelled by lovers of wifdome and v rtue: wherefore 1 would notwim them towrrive their councells in many'of thofc places, but to feck to the haven of Hemes or LiB4» The Holy Guide. 5 , . — i . » -- i > ■ or jRo// Crucians, and of their fons the wife Philosophers as to the only one, ready and eafy way to our Gnid to kap?ine(fe , then we arc come at laft to thaG which Wis the firft intent and meaning of all this labour, that Hermes and the Philofophers medicines arc the true and ready way to eternal happinefs in Phyfick. 2. But how (hall we prove this unlefs we unlock the doorc of fecrcts, and let in light to thofe matters which hive been ever moft clofelykept and hid in darknefle? we mull I fay firft open what is Hermes medicine, ex- cept we would put on a vizard, and make a long buzz and empty found of words, about that which no man understands. We are like now to be driven into a marvailous ftraight either to fly the field, or to venture upon the curfe and difpleafure of many wife and Godly men, yci and of God him- fclf as we heard at the beginning. If Vhto thought he had caife when he took in hand that mighty piece of work, the world, firft to make his prayer; how much more may we in fuch a world of doubts and dangers t and tedefire of God that we may prove our qucftion, not only with fufficienc evidence, but with fuch difcretion alfo , that thofe men which can ufe it, and arc worthy of it, may fee the t^uth, and the reft may be blinded. 3 » Then The Holy Guide- L1B.4 3. Then both to direfr my fpecch, which muft have fomc ground to ftand upon, and their ftcps which crave a little light to guide them, 1 think it beft to come to the entrance of this way , and to point afar off unto the end , leaving the righs unto their own wit and labor , for I may not be their guide* lcaft the reft (hould cfpy us and follow us as faft. 4. Hermes Medicines and the Rofie Cru- cian* Medicines lye among them, even in Gold; and the end of this Journey where happinefs begins, is the fon of him; albeit thatlamnot ignorant'thac father Hermes and the reft of his wife fofor children,hold and teach that out of any plant, wight or mineral, may be fetched a medicine for all difeafes of men and mectals , as good as this which we have defcribed ; neither dowc, as though we had drunk thcw.uec of Lethe , forgot the reafon of it above declared, becaufe all things are in all things, and the fame and one thing, at having all one fluffand foul ; if their ftuffo had the like and not divers minglings, and for that all things if th?y were wrought to the top and higheft of perfc&ion fas they may be) (how a like with all the venues of heaven and earth, foul, body, li r e and< qualities; but thofe wayes arc long, cum • berfqmc and coftly, as well as the reft, and L1B4. The Holy Guide. 5 *° \ know you feck the moft^ready^^rl^d eaiie, vvhicn is gold far above all other things in the world. 5. The reafon is tccaufc nature hath powered her felt wholly upon him, and in- fcotfed h;m cffar more and greater gifts >oth of foul and body then all the reft laving given him not orely greater ftore B the heat of heaven , but alfo the meff jne, temperate and lafting body, whereby >ut efpecialiy by reafon of his exceeding ioughand lafting body, wherein he won- derfully pattern all things , we have him ialf ready dreft to our hands, and brought ery near the jourmys end, quickly to be cd forward and finiflied wuhlirtlc labor; then as the reft are left in a very hard way ery many mile* b:hind him •, it U ftrargc am perfwaded that a thoufand ounces of a lant, or wight (as for Minerals, they fcc nuch better) cannot with gi eat labor, coft, kill, and time, be brought to that good* cfsand nearnefs to ptrfe&ioa, as an ounce f Gold hath already given him by nature; nd I durft warrant you , thai out of an unee of Gold in lefs then one years fpaee 5 »ith a few pounds charge may be gotten a Iedicine as good as the Philofophers Pan- |irva, of flant or wi?ht, that takcth a lioufand ounces of fluff, many hundred sounds oi charge, three years rime;, and 6 the Holy Guide. LiB. 4, the wearing ouc of many mens bodies, that we may think , although the wife Philofo-' pherB in Egypt faw and (hewed the depth of Nature, and thffe works, yet they were net fo mad and fond as to put them in pracYice 5 and therefore Uain Geberin faith, it is poffi'ole out of Plants to make the Me- dicine!, and y t ailmoft impoffible alfo, becaufc thy life would firft fail thee; where- fore we may be content alfo to know the fecret, but let us ufe no other way but this, and fo difpatch not only plants and ivights a* foul earthly things , but alfo middle Mi- nerals, which arc like the ftanding lights of heaven in this comparifon. Nay, neither hold we his fellow plants to be his equals, no though th y be Quick-filvcr or Silver themfeives, the beftand neareft of all thcl reft, cfpecially Silver the wife of Gold, but! even let her pack away w'uh the reft ; for as her fire above glitters and makes a fair (hew until! (he come in prefence of her husband (as the want of had women is) fo this our earthly Moon be (he never fo bright and ex- cellent in another* company, y«tinfight& regard of Gold her husband, (he appcareth as nothing ; if y ou marvail why > it is becauft (he wantetb much of the heat of heaven , temperatenefs and toughnefs of body, but in finenefs an hundred fold; ihcfe things arc high and lofty, and foar above Lib. 4« TAe Holy Guide. above the common fight , |wc will (etch •them down anone and make them plain and catie. 6. Then let us fall to the matter, that the ion of Gold may be found , the ready way to Gold, the perfeft Medicine both of man and mettals •, and tirft as it is meet, let us regard our felves and cure our own bo- dies before we help a Granger. There is is no gift properly or vertue but it fpring- eth either from the foul or the body 5 the I beft gift of the foul is moft ftore thereof , as we the wed before 5 and of the body fit ft ! temperatenefs thereof in the firft qualities* and then finenefs and clofcncfs, which cau- 1 feth laftingne'Sj in the fecond^ let us fee how Gold exccllcth in all thofe vertucs and ■ ovcrgoech all other things, firfl by the gift I of nature , and then by a divine Science* • but it were not good in fuch an heap of 1 matters to be difpofed and difpatched at : once, co regard thofe that be clear and re- • ecivtd; fo then let the finenefs of Gold go his ways, as clear in all mens eyes, and his tem peratcoefs, which all Leaches grant, and take th? reft as things both more in doubt and of greater worth. 7. Thofe thit arelongefta ripening and growing to perfection , are both the moft tough and lafting, and fullcft of heavenly vcrtues 5 whereas on the other fide, foon 1 i 2 ripe, 8 1 he Holy Guide. LlB. ripe, foon rotten, as they fay, and an ill weed grows a pace and (o forth ; the ciufe or this in bodies 5 is beciufe the firft moi- ftut e , it it be faft and clofe , that is full, proceedeth and fpreadcth (lowly and is hardly confumed and eaten up with the fire of life, when thinne and watcrifh moifturc fpreads apace, and fpends as faft ; and for that heavenly venue'", when the ftuffe hath long Iain open under the hands of the fpi- ritsof heaven, it muft needs receive grea- ter ftore of them , and hold them furely with his ftrength & toughnefsj what rcafon can (hew this more plainly, except you will call me to examples? then bend your ears a wfrle and mark the Elephant, swo years in making in his mothers womb, and a long time in growing to his beft cltatc and lufti- nefs, tonachthe hightft and beft pitch in mortality (for man is mortal) and nos one- lybyhis ftrength and long life which you heard before , but through a kind of wk and good conditions alfo, drawing neer to the nature of mankind. 8. Conflder again of Mice, thofc little verroine, how foon they be bred, as forne- times the earth creates them, fometimes the mother without the male by licking fait, and other whiles ( for a wonder in nature ) they conceive and arc big with young in their mothers btlly. Confider I fey* LlB.4* The Boly Guide. fay, howfoon again chcy be fucpt away, even with a mower of rain , as Aritfotk re- porteth, who tells of a one-day flye bred in a leaf in the forenoon,at midday fledged, and ever dying at night vfith the fetting of the Sun. 9. Again Pliny write th of a child that wkhin three y*ari fpace grevf three cu- bits,- and was now grown to mans ftatc (which they calif ubeYtateuni)h\xi hafte made waft as thsy fay, and within three years after his limbs mrunk upa^ain, an « he dy- ed- Nay he faith , thu the whole kinde of women among the Caiingians> conceive at five years of age, and live but eight. To cut off living wights, and come to plants, are not trees the longer -lived the bettcc in ufe,for the long growth and ripen- ing ? and among trees, doth not the Oak, after his long growth to perfection , fland to our great profit even for ever slrnoft ? It is orange that I fay, and yet Jofefbus writes of one that flood from Abrahams time 9 to the razing of Jerufalem , ivfo thoufand years at leaft; and God knows how long after that time it lafted; to befhort, rhe beft tree of all the earth that brings forth the Coccus of/wfidjin one mans age, fear ce begins to bear any fruit,and Iafteth after that almoft Raft all ages. Ii 3 Where- io 1 he Holy Guide. Lib. 4, Wherefore the minerals by the courfe of rcafonand cuflome , bting by thegrantof all men, longcft in making and perftcYmg, muft needs of all other bothbebeftin ver- tue, and laft thclongeft, and among them GoldaboveaU, becaufe it is the end of all, and fo far in that point paffcih themoft part of them , that as fome men think, a thoufand years arc fpent before it come to perfection; for his long lafting we fee plainly he is evcrlafting •, and if we doubt or h's heavenly vertue, Jet us weigh the place and womb where he is fafhioned, and we (hall fee it a common gulf of all the beams of heaven , as the Sea is the receipt of all the rivers that run. 10. How is this? albeit the beams of heaven (it forth from a round and wide compaffe, and likewife leave a circle after they have traveled a great wide way one from another,domeet at laft together,;* amp in thcNavill of the Earth, yea and with great force and ftrcngth, above all other fpi- rits in their places, not only by thercafon and the length of their jonrney (for all na% turall things the further they go, the more they mend their pace,) but chiefly becaufe meeting in fuch a flrait, with fuch abun« dance, they violently thruft,and throw one another on heaps together, as we fee the force of win.de and wat^r meeting in that order. J II The Holy Guide. L1B.4 order,or rather as the Sun - beams, falling upon the ftone Hephcfiites^ or the Steeple fa- (hioncd burning -glafle, thereby (hews fuch flrange and unwonted force to burn drythings,mcltmettals and fuch- like, bceaufe the beams that light upon it, do meet all in heaps and apace, in one narrow point of the Middle. 11. Wherefore the Minerals, becaufe they be bred and brought up about that place, firft receive great plenty ofthof hea- venly fpirits, and then thofe very furely fct on by the fwiftnefieof the ftroak, and a? faft held and kept, for the found end ckfc bodyes that take the Printings when as plants and wights, dwelling in one place., and outfide of the ground aloft, where thofe b?ams and breaths of heaven^are more fcarfe, flack and weak, rouft needs have net onely leflc ftore, faintly put upon tbem,but alio thofe which th y have, for their loofe and foft fturFj quickly loft and forgon 2- gain. 12. But if the edg of fome mens mts, be too blunt and dull to cut ip deeply into the earrh,to finde this marter,Iet them caft their eyes and behold the daily experience, how thefc heavenly fpirits in Minerals, for all they (hut up and bound Co Faft in the prifon ofthe hard and fturdy ftu-ffj yet are able to (how their forcc> as much and woik as I i 4 mightily* I a The Holy Guide. L1E.4 mightily, as the free breaths of other things enlarged in their fofc and gentle bo- ; dies. 13. It would not be amiffe to bring in a few and fct before us, becaufefor the (loth of the tim-s paft, and fpite of th* latter lea- ches, thefe things have laine for the mod part, bur'edas theyb?, and hid from the light and common knowledg. 14. Ttien to paffe by r he-Pearl, that hcl- psth iwouning and withftands the Plague of poyfon-, the Smarage and Jacinth like- wire , which keep off the plague, and heal the Wounds, Venemous Stings, and many more fuch rare and worthy vcrtucs, which! tfafy themfclves grant and give to pretious {tones in their wi icings, nay iniheirTro- chifes, Pills, and Electuaries, let us come to hard Joyces and middle minerals, the Water of Niel, which makes the women of Mgyft fo quick of conceit, and (o fruit full, as to bear fea-men at a birth, as Vbroates writes, is known to be a Salt-peter- water; it is foun \ by common proof that the fame Sale- peter, or common Salt, or Coppere* Matter, made a water, kills the poyfon of theToad-ftoole, and Joyce of Poppy: that a Plaifter of Salt and brimftone heals the hurt of vrnom infringed; That Amber which is no ftone but a hard C'lany Juyce, calfed Bitumen, eafeth the labour of women and the L > B.4* The Holy Guide. 1 3 the falling fukneflc ofChildren^it is known likewise that all wholfo me bathes, both wee and dry, of wucr or its vapours, which ai\' wirhouc number in the world, butefpeci- ally that famou* Hott - houf* in Z- tally, called Salviati, for the (pace ofthrre miles compaffe wrought and hewn out of the ground very daintily, deferveth to be named and delivered to the memory of men to come J flow from a brimftony ground, and draw from thence,all their nature, qus- Ji:y, force, and vercue;except a few of Cop- peres water, as appears by ihcir dying pro- perty, whereby thsy give any white rnettal thdr own yclow and Copper colour; Now for Mettals,if ic be true that precious ftoncs in that hard and ungentle faQilon , (hew fuch vertuc and power of healing , why mould we mark the German for a lyar, when he awards great praife to the mixture of all theMettals,madein theconvertion of their own Planets which he calls Elc&rum, fay- ing it will cure the Cramp, benuming Pal- fy, falling fickneffe, if it be worne on the hearty finger: and give fignes befidesifthe body ayleth any thing, by fpots and fweat- nitig; and bewray poyfon, if it be made in Plate by the fame tokens? for all that Pliny will have poyfons fo difcribed by the natu- rall Ele&rum and Maffe of Gold and filvcr, and not by the artificial mixture to be made of The Holy Guide. IjB.4, of filverand Gold and Copper, Adulter an- da. adulteria nature^ as he more finely then conftantlyfaith, when he allotcd fo chaft vertue before unto her. 15. But fuppofe this vertue in the hard form of mcttalls nor fo apparent; yet no man fhall den^ the daily proofs of them o penly by rude skill, and fct a little at liber- ty^ the great ufe of burnt brafIc,lron-faf- ron,Metta!-fmoak(and this by Gallens own witrjeft) and marvailous help in Chirurge- ry ; nay the mighty power, both within and without of Antimony, which is unripe Lead^nd of Qiiick-(ilver,very raw and run- ning fiber, fo after tryed before their eye*, hath amafed and daunted the better Lee- chcSjthough Gallen himfelf in times paft hath termed this rank poyfon , fer ftraighc sgainft our nature, and the lcaft part there- of taken inward, to hurt and annoy us, to the great laughter of the Country witts, which even Children , a dangerous time to take Piylick in 3 take , without any hurt at all,nay which they ufe to drink it a- gainftwormes in great quantity ; but Gal- hn did but rove by g u eft at the matter, when as in another place (forgetting him-* felf as he doth often) -he faithhe never had tryed its force neither within nor without the Body. 16. Rue JL1B.4. the Hoi) Guide. I % 1 6. But if thofe ftonesjuyces and mutals Were by great skill more finely dreft, and freely fct at liberty (as they be by the Ger- mane') what wonder were they like to work in the Ait of healing ? neither let us think (as Gallen and his herd think of all things^ thofe great and rare mineral vermes, could iffue out, and come from the grofle and foul body, but from an heavenly gift erf a migh- ty foule, which cannot be kept in awe, and held fo ftraight, with thofe earthly bound?, as it (hall not be able in fome fore to fiirr and break through and fticw its force and power. 1 7. Wherefore to rcturne to my purpofe, if nature hath beftowed upon thefe three forts and fuits of minerals, fo large gifts and vcrtuesjwhen (he hath given to gold the end and perfection of them all, fo receiving and holdin g the vcrtues ofthem all at oncej What fays the Leachc 5 to this matter > They are loth to fay any thing, albeit i heir deeds fpeak enough, when they lay raw Gold to the right fide of the head to h e « 1 his ach; right againft the heart to comfort his fad- nelle and trembling: arid when in fuch fore ihey apply it to fuch purpofes ; again why dotheyboyle it in their cullifTe, mix it in their pills and their ele&uaryes, bid the Lepers (wallow h> do they not feem to fmcll its great and matchless power againft difeafes 1 6 The Holy Guide* L1B.4 difcafcs and marvcylous Comfort and wholfomncffe to our nature? But lik* rude and unskiilfull Cooks they know not how to drefie it? but if t icy know the skill,thcy {hpuid Tee it rife in power and vertue, ac- cording to his degrees in freedom?, & when H comes ( o the top* which I call the fon of Gold, to prove almighty > I mean within our compaffc; for confider Gold is now good and friendly above all unco us, for his exceeding ftore of com for table heat of hea- ven, (liming through the mift of a moft fine and temperate body. Then what would ie be if the properties of the body were by great, mingling and breaking of the fluff, refined and rai fed in their ktnde,an hundred degress at leaft? (which our Art profeffeth) and thofe lively and piercing helps of comfortable fpirits, freed and fet at full li- berty, and all rhefe feated, upon a mighty bocty fubduing all things? is there any thing In the world to be compared,to the mighty and nnrvailous work which he would make in our bodies > could any of thefe ve- ry violent and mortall poyfons, which I brought in above,fo eafily and roundly de- ftroy us, as this would help and fave us? but to come to the point. 18. Ifthat our old clofe fine and Mi he- real oyls which they call a fift nature, was able alone/or thercafons fee down in their places, L 1 B 4. The Holy Guide. 1 7 places, to breed and beget all thofe blefied bodily gifts and properties, that is , health and youth, and the two fpringsof wifdom andvertue, clearneflc and temperate nsfTc ; how much more (hall this Ton of Gold the rocdecine and ftone of Hermes, and bh ofl- fpring be fufficknt and fumifhed for it? 19. For fir ft, when his foul and heat of heaven is much more great and mighty, and his body a more fine and faft Oylc, that is a more like and lafting focd of life, it both upholdcth andftrengtheneth life, and natu- rall hca* the better, and 10 proves the better caufe of long life and youth; then being temperate 9 and that quality carried upon, and that quality and finer and tougher thas is a ftronger body, it is able v»ith more cafe and fpced to fubdue his and our eccmies>the diftempcred difeafes.arad to elenfe and cleare fafhion and bring into good order and tem- per the whole frame of our body 8c to pro- cure health, wifdome and vertuc, in better fort, and in more full and heaped meafure; for you muft not think thata fit natureof wine or fuch like that I brought in above, and which many men do make for their bodies, is fo good by twenty degrees as the Philofophers ftone ; I mean the fame raea- fureofboihs when befides that ic is noc temperate and neare unio Heaven, (though the 1 8 7 he Holy Guide. Ll B.4 the name be never foncarc) for it wantcth twenty parts of the foul, and as much of trut fine fluff, clofely and finely tyed up to* gehcr ; and therefore one part thereof will iaft longer, and fpread further with all his. veitues,and fo do more good in our bodies, then twenty time as much as the formcr;de- liver to minde what I fay; it is worth mark- ing; I (hall not need to ftand to fhew you the reafons why,and manner how this great Medicine of Her wes, (hall be able to get and purchafe thofc pleafurcs of mind and body, becaufc it is already done at large elfc- where, and it may fufTer in this place co win by force of reafon (which hath been done as much as needs)thzt this medicine is much bctter^and more able then an /Fther,Heaven ot fift nature. 20. Then thofc men may fee ( Imeane Varacelfa and fuchas .know whereof th«y ipeak, let the reft go) how ram and unad- vised they prove themfelves when they arc content to let in the name of Poyfon into this happy medicine, and to avowthniE workethall thofc wond.°rsin our body^s, by that v^y of curing which 1 (hewed, by ftronge -like poyfons : for then it would be at moft but a gcmrall mcdicine,and cure- all again ft difeafe*, and fit for health alone, but no Phyfkall or joyfull way to long life, yemhj wifdomc, andvertuej which grant Ia B.4. The Holy Guide. 1 9 r e well as the other, both he and all the reft r?o give unto him 5 for it might not be ta- ken and ufed in a fecond body, no more then a purging medicine f except it were of the Viperous kindc aforefaid; for he then would battail with our nature, fpoyle and overthrow the fi. ft moyfturc, and the whole frame of the body; fo farr it would be from nourifhing the naturall heat and rooy- fture, from clearing and tempering the body to caufe long life,youth wifdome and vertue; And the rtafon of this reproof is, becaufe every poyfon is very barren and empty of the heat of heaven, and very diftemperedly cold and dry in body , fet ftraight againft cur hot and moift nature (as appears by fly* ing the fire, and oyle his enemies} the Phi* lofophers ftone was temperate in refpe&,at firft, and is nowexaftly fo and a very fine c yle, and full of heavenly fpirits; and fo for thofc three caufes, not only moft friendly and like to naturc 3 but alfo a very deadly *- ncmy and moft craffe contrary to all poy- fon. CHAP. io The Holy Gride. L1B.4, CHAP. II. I Hermes and Paracelfus tSMedicines. i . Of the foure Complexions of the body, 2 Of Malice and Ignorance ; 3 . Of Difeafes , Age and Death ; 4. How to makf minerals &ow; 5. How to mak^. Lead grow, 6. That Goldha-ih li r e; 7. Tbe unwinding of fecrets-, 2. Authors Opinions ; 9, How to order the feed of Gold 5 10. Experienced truths 5 11. Campari fons; 12. Of turning wood into Iron and slone; 1$. Of turning Iron into Copper, 1 4. Abraham Judseus experiment; 15. lr- i(h fritter j and other things 5 16. Of Gcbcr cwdAgricoia; ij. Of fait Gemm; 18- Iron m^ &e w^e to car Ste*/ 0* j<*//* as /tee/ cuts wood-, 19. Of Silvery and G olden C operas; 20. T6e iwfKe of Copperas Water; 2 1. , 0/ Art and Katurall changes ; 22. Natures Medicines j 23. Oft be food of Gold and other things. OVer this we have lightly run,bcing the former part of long life, health, youth flefrntijj^ — *—— — — a <¥/ L1B4. the Holy Guide. a 1 clearneile, and temper a tentffc, which make up all good gifts of body needfulJ ; let us now come to the outward help of riches, and borrow fo much leave again, as to ufe thecaufefor the effeft, and take gold for riches, and ftrive to (how that the fon of Gold is able to turne any mettal into gold; and net fo fparinglyand hardly as wc did before, by thofc baftred kinds of binding and colourin&frf though a little of it were I without mif-pene •? of time & travail would fervc our turn) but as fully and plentifully as any of our men allow to that amazemene I of the world ; they fct not down nor flint, which I will do, becaufe I have to do with thirft ing ears, and becaufe again I love noc tornn.t randum* but to make a certain mark whereat to aime and levell all my fpeeches. Then let us fay> by this great skill of Met" mej,& a little labour and coft we may fpend with the greateft Monarch in the world, & reach the Turks revenew, yea though it be fifteen millionsStarling,as 1 find it credibly reported; yea let us be bold, and not as So- crates did when he fpake of love,hid his face from the matter, the truth is vouchablc be- fore God and man, and will beare is Mi outatlaft, though it be my luck ft ill to be Croft by men of our own coat, Hermes fofter Children: But why do 1 call chem fo . ? al» Kk fecif 12 the Holy Guide. L1B.4. btit Patactlfus of whom we deal of late, was plainly fo; Yec his Schollers Phyfick, which iijw comes in place, is out of this account as clearly; thismaa